Pub Date: January 5, 2021
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2020912213
Lexile Code: 0510
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 10.30" L x 10.30" W ( 0.94 lbs) 40 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational | Social Themes | Emigration, Immigration & Refugees | Asian American & Pacific Islander
Description: From New York Times bestselling author Livia Blackburne and illustrator Julia Kuo, here is I Dream of Popo. This delicate, emotionally rich picture book celebrates a special connection that crosses time zones and oceans as Popo and her granddaughter hold each other in their hearts forever.
Brief description: New York Times-bestselling author Livia Blackburne wrote her first novel while researching the neuroscience of reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, she's switched to full time writing, which also involves getting into people's heads but without the help of a three tesla MRI scanner. She is the author of the Midnight Thief and Rosemarked duologies. Livia was born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to Albuquerque, NM when she was five. After a twelve year stint at Harvard and MIT, where she earned a AB in Biochemical Sciences and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, she moved to Los Angeles, where she now lives with her husband and daughter. In her free time, Livia likes to karaoke, dance, and dabble in martial arts.
Review Quotes:
"Readers will connect with this visual story on various levels or learn something new; possibly both. #Ownvoices tributes to childhood memories of home: It is as much an emotional space as a physical place." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A richly nuanced narrative that illuminates the interstices of one family's diasporic experience." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "This modern tale beautifully explores what it's like for a child to move across the globe and the toll that family separations can take." --Booklist, starred review