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Dane Liu was born in China and spent her teenage years in the US and Canada. Her journalism career began in Haiti, producing a PBS documentary about child slavery. In 2018, We Need Diverse Books awarded her a year-long mentorship for her picture books that explore incarceration, literacy, and immigration. Friends Are Friends, Forever was her first picture book. daneliu.com Shin Yeon Moon is a New York-based illustrator. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, where she now teaches. Her work has garnered accolades from esteemed illustration publications including Society of Illustrators and Communication Arts. shinyeon-moon.com
"""When Laolao requests dumplings, Millie heads to Chinatown to buy groceries from the woman's extended community, discovering a ripple effect of caring and connection. Moon's highly detailed, thin-lined digital illustrations capture the bustle of Chinatown and the sensory details of creating dumplings as a grandparent's knowledge in turn becomes a way of caring for her."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review"
