SCBWI-WWA member Lily LaMotte is hosting a virtual book launch for her debut middle grade graphic novel, Measuring Up. The event is October 27, 2020 at 6 p.m. Register for the Measuring Up Virtual Book Launch on crowdcast.io at this link: https://tinyurl.com/yyxbcamg
About Measuring Up
Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-má’s, seventieth birthday together.
Since she can’t go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the grand prize in a kids’ cooking contest to pay for A-má’s plane ticket! There’s just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.
And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch, she’s determined to channel her inner Julia Child. Can Cici find a winning recipe to reunite with A-má, a way to fit in with her new friends, and somehow find herself too?
About the Launch Event
Lily LaMotte and author Gene Luen Yang will be in conversation about her book Measuring Up.
Watch the quick video of the reading of Chapter One from Studio East’s wonderful young actors and Lily’s cooking video here.
Enter a random drawing giveaway by pre-ordering signed copies of Measuring Up by emailing info@brickandmortarbooks.com for curbside pickup or shipping. Let them know if you’d like the book personalized.
Two lucky winners will get a tea towel featuring an image from Measuring Up. Lily is hard at work sewing them up!
About the authors in this event
Lily LaMotte is the debut author of MEASURING UP with HarperCollins/ HarperAlley. When she isn’t writing picture books and middle grade graphic novels, she’s cooking up new recipes. Sometimes, when she sees the gray clouds outside her window in the Pacific Northwest, she loads up the campervan for a writing retreat camping trip with her husband and two dogs. Lily LaMotte has an MFA from Hamline’s Writing for Children and Young Adults. She is passionate about supporting libraries and is a King County Library System Foundation Board member. She was also on the SCBWI Western WA advisory committee for many years.
Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. As the Library of Congress’ fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, he advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. American Born Chinese, his first graphic novel from First Second Books, was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award. His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the L.A. Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His other works include Secret Coders (with Mike Holmes), The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew), New Super-Man from DC Comics (with various artists), and the Avatar: The Last Airbender series from Dark Horse Comics (with Gurihiru). In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.