. Anyone can create an account an join the chat. Here are some details: APALA Chat with Author Grace LinAdding to the awesomeness, it'll be moderated by our friend Eugenia Beh.To join Wednesday's chat, go here (you'll have to create an account first). For more information, go to the Facebook event page here. And for more information on Grace Lin and her books, go to her official website here.
Join APALA for a chat with Newbery Honor-winning author and 2006 APALA Literature Award Honoree Grace Lin!
When: July 14
Time: 2PM EST (11AM PST, 1PM CST)
Where: http://connect.ala.org/chatrooms/chat/798
(Please sign up at http://connect.ala.org/ and request to join the APALA member group at http://connect.ala.org/node/76086 if you haven't already. Please sign up at least a day in advance so that our group manager can add you.)
Grace Lin is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, including THE UGLY VEGETABLES and DIM SUM FOR EVERYONE! Also an author of middle grade fiction, Grace's 2010 Newbery Honor book WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON was chosen for Al Roker's Today Show Kid's Book Club and was a NY Times Bestseller. While most of Grace's books are about the Asian-American experience, she believes, "Books erase bias, they make the uncommon everyday, and the mundane exotic. A book makes all cultures universal." See more about Grace and her work at http://www.gracelin.com/.
UPDATE: A transcript of the chat is available here. To access it, you'll have to first create an account here and then join the APALA community here. From there, you can click on Chats in the righthand menu, where you'll find the chat with Grace Lin.