![]() ![]() She didn’t see herself reflected in the books she read or the television she watched. Grace Lin grew up in upstate New York, where she and her sisters were the only Asian American kids in her elementary school. You know, when, when there was a, a project on the Vikings? I remember my friend Jill made a, a Viking helmet and my friend Charlotte made a Viking boat, but I made a book about the Vikings because I just loved making.” And so, um, whenever there was a school project, I always made a book. “I felt this kind of strange sense of alienation books became kind of my friends and I loved books so much. Hear past shows on Stage & Studio website. ![]() ![]() The podcast features music by Min Kahng with Madeleine Tran and full cast in Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Where The Mountain Meets The Moon. Subscribe and listen to Stage & Studio on: Apple, Google, Spotify, Android and Sticher. ![]() Dmae Lo Roberts, who conducts the interview, is also the director of Oregon Children’s Theatre’s production: In this podcast you’ll hear music from the stage production by Min Kahng of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, adapted from Lin’s book of the same title, and more. Dmae Lo Roberts talked with Lin for the Stage and Studio podcast about Lin’s childhood, her career, and her drive to create Asian American characters in her works. Grace Lin, a Taiwanese-American author and illustrator of more than 30 children’s books, is a Newberry, Geisel and Caldecott honoree living in Northampton, Massachusetts. ![]()
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