Grace Lin's A Big Mooncake for Little Star & A Big Bed for Little Snow-2 Chinese Children's Books

By: Grace Lin, 谢媛媛 & 赵伟轩 (Translators)Originally published in: United StatesFormat: HardcoverLanguage: Simplified ChinesePages per book: 34Lines per page: 1-4 Luka® can read 1 of these 2 books!  New York Times bestselling author Grace Lin presents her "favorite Asian holiday", the Mid-Autumn Festival, in this 2019 Caldecott Honor award book: 《小星星的大月饼》( xiǎo xīng xīng de dà yuè bǐng) A Big Mooncake for Little Star.  Grace Lin created the story about the Mid-Autumn festival to explain the celebration to her three-year-old daughter after the traditional tale failed to capture her interest. She also wanted to increase Asian representation in American children's literature so her daughter and others like her could “see” themselves in more books. It is a story about Little Star gradually eating the big mooncake that her mother has baked. Little Star eats the big mooncake bit by bit, in phases that mimic the phases of the moon.   "The rich darkness of the book’s pages is cut by the glor