Belle Yang, Author . Norton $23.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-393-06834-4
With a lilting voice and a strongly etched fairy tale hand, writer/artist Yang weaves a riveting true-life tale of ancestral jealousies and familial woes from her father's recollections of growing up in China. Her book begins with Yang in her...
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Belle Yang, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-100175-0
""Baba,"" the author's father, was 17 when war raged in China between Mao Zedong's Red Army and Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. All around him, people were fleeing, his own well-to-do Manchurian family with them; and he himself, neither a...
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Belle Yang, Author, Belle Yang, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202006-4
In Yangs inaugural childrens book, the eponymous hero is a spunky purple donkey with a harness of bells that sings out his name. Though several people attempt to rein him in, Chili-Chili-Chin-Chin refuses to be ridden, owned or made to work in the...
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Belle Yang. Candlewick, $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5280-7
Three pudgy gouache rabbits explore the colorful marvels of spring in this bilingual book with words in English and Mandarin Chinese characters. Loosely outlined in black, the rabbits have a simple elegance that echoes the mood of quiet observation.
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Belle Yang. Candlewick, $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6598-2
Yang continues her series of English/Mandarin Chinese board books with the story of a hedgehog racing to get home before a storm. Her simplified gouache paintings picture the spiky brown hedgehog crawling over green fields covered with spiraling...
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Belle Yang, Author, Belle Yang, Illustrator, Amy Tan, Preface by Mariner Books $18 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-600239-4
Yang's account of her father's Manchurian childhood in the 1930s and 1940s is accompanied by the author's illustrations. (Mar.)
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Belle Yang, Author, Amy Tan, Introduction by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-15-100063-0
Born in Taiwan, writer/painter Yang, who emigrated to the U.S. with her parents in 1962 at age 10, wondrously evokes-in words and paintings-the Manchuria of the 1930s and '40s, where her father, Joseph Yang (``Baba''), grew up during the Japanese...
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Marcia Williams, Author, Belle Yang, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator . Candlewick $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3532-9
Williams (Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
) inventively expands on her signature comic-strip style in this oversize, paper-over-board work, ostensibly a scrapbook made by a 10-year-old Londoner between May 1914 and November 1918. With Archie’s
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Belle Yang. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9270-4
Yang (Forget Sorrow) follows her young narrator as she cycles through Beijing looking for her cat, Kitty, who has been carried aloft on the tail of a Dragon Kite. At last, the girl hears a familiar “niaow-niaow” on the other side of a gate. When she’
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