Part historical fiction & part fable, Shing Yin Khor’s The Legend of Auntie Po is about mythology, family, and race.
Grades 7-10.
In a late-19th-century Sierra Nevada logging camp, a Chinese American girl spins tall tales and dreams of a better future.
A timely and ultimately hopeful tale.
A National Book Award Finalist
An Eisner Award Winner for Best Publication for Teens
A California Book Award Finalist
A 2022 ALSC Notable Children’s Book
Why Introduce Kids to Authors? From Reading Rockets: An author becomes a "writing mentor" for readers as they read and study their work and respond to it through a variety of writing. This "mentoring" and students' writing responses can help kids build confidence in their writing and can even inspire them to become authors themselves.
In their SPI talk, Shing Yin discusses the writing process, cartooning, memoir writing, autobio comics, and reimagining mythological characters.
