Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day: Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year

It’s almost Lunar New Year!  Seollal is Mina’s her favorite day of the year!  She’s even more excited because her family is coming to school to share Seollal traditions with her class.  Dressed in her pretty hanbok, Mina shows everyone how to play jegi-chagi, fly bangpe-yeon and she demonstrates sebae, a special New Year’s greeting to show respect to elders.  Everything’s going well until Mina’s father and extremely grumpy younger brother show up.  Will Mina’s special day be ruined?  A lovely story about Korean culture and the joy of new year traditions celebrated with friends.

Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day: Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year was written and illustrated by Aram Kim and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers. Out on December 27!

How We Eat

A beautifully inclusive book celebrating all of the different ways we eat.  It’s a joy to read and belongs in every home library.  Congratulations to Shuli and the team behind this thoughtful new board book!

How We Eat was written by Shuli de la Fuente-Lau and published by Little Feminist Book Club.

A Sweet New Year for Ren

An Asian children’s book about family, food, traditions and pineapple cakes on Lunar New Year.
A new children’s book about family, food and traditions on Lunar New Year.
A picture book about family, food, traditions and pineapple cakes on Lunar New Year.
An Asian kids’ book about family, food and traditions on Chinese New Year.

A Sweet New Year for Ren is out today!

Little Ren looks forward to the preparation for and festivities of Lunar New Year, but she is always too little to help make the delicious pineapple cakes that are her favorite.  She watches family members rolling out the dough and loves the mouth-watering smell. Watching and waiting, when will Ren be old enough?

Growing up, I loved hearing my father tell stories about his childhood in the Philippines, and to this day, I still do.  A SWEET NEW YEAR FOR REN was inspired by our Chinese heritage, by stories of my dad celebrating Lunar New Year as a boy and by my family’s love for traditions and beautiful times spent together throughout the years.

Pineapples symbolize good fortune and prosperity in Chinese and Taiwanese cultures.  Pineapple cakes originated in Taiwan and are often given as gifts wherever Lunar New Year is celebrated.  In Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, pineapple tarts are also baked and enjoyed during Lunar New Year.  A recipe by my dear friend and food writer/artist Bonnie Eng is included!

Thank you to all of the wonderful individuals who have brought this story to life including incredible illustrator Dung Ho. A Sweet New Year for Ren was published by Simon & Schuster.

Happy #bookbirthday to A Sweet New Year for Ren!  So much gratitude to all who have preordered and shared!!!