Description: When Ai Lin starts school, her classmates can't pronounce her Chinese name. She helps them understand her name isn't just a sound‒it is a part of her heritage.
Brief description: Maria Wen Adcock is a first-generation Chinese American writer, and It's Chinese New Year, Curious George was her first children's book. She is the founder of the award-winning blog BiculturalMama.com and has appeared in Bloomberg News, Huffington Post, The Dr. Oz Show, and Newsday. Maria is a board member of Multicultural Kid Blogs, an organization supporting diverse parenting bloggers, and co-host of the annual event Multicultural Children's Book Day. She lives on Long Island in New York.
Review Quotes: A fine story of cultural identity, fitting in, making choices, and teaching others evolves, which will be perfect for picture book readers and adults seeking to transmit information about other cultures, words, heritage, and values.-- "Midwest Book Review" (10/1/2025 12:00:00 AM)