My Second Book: Tales for Two
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Recently won two Purple Dragonfly Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature (cultural diversity category, picture book for aged 6+ category).
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As I showed the draft of Anthology 42 to my teachers, friends, and family, the idea for Tales for Two surfaced:
1. My young cousins loved the rhymes in the book.
2. I witnessed how my uncle encouraged critical thinking by asking the children open-ended questions on rhymes.
3. My teachers who came from overseas related that they felt the book gave them and their children a small window to understanding foreign values and cultures.
Thinking about their feedback, I decided to prototype this new picture book series targeted at younger children. It contains rhymes that I wrote based on fun and meaningful classic fables and stories from around the world. The first few books in my series draw from Chinese tales. I will then move on to French, Spanish, and Arabic stories.
Tales for Two is a series of picture books based on traditional stories and proverbs from around the globe. Each book seeks to make learning English interactive, colorful, and fun, while also introducing children to wisdom tales they might not otherwise come across. Book One presents stories from ancient China.
Tales for Two is also about developing a mind of active listening and critical thinking rather than passive reading. The series is best read by an adult and a child together, hence the title.
But most of all, Tales for Two is about learning, appreciating, and understanding a diversity of beautiful values and people while reflecting on the commonality of humanity that ties us all together — our first step to a better tomorrow.