How This Book Got Red

(Hardback)

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In this clever picture book tale about the power of representation, a red panda decides to write her own story when she realizes that none of the other panda books include pandas that look like her. None of the panda books are ever about red pandas! Red is going to do something about that. When Red discovers a new book about pandas, she can't wait to read it! Except it's about only one kind of panda, and red pandas are completely left out. Red never gets to read stories about pandas like herself! So she decides to take matters into her own paws and write her own book. But sometimes Red wonders if the only kind of pandas the world sees are the black and white kind. What if nobody wants to read her book Red must find the courage to finish her story.

Author Bio

MARGARET CHIU GREANIAS is not a red panda, but when she was growing up she also did not see herself in many books. She is the author of the picture books Amah Faraway and Maximillian Villainous. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children. MELISSA IWAI has illustrated numerous award-winning picture books, including Thirty Minutes Over Oregon, Let's Go to the Hardware Store, and Truck Stop. She is also the author-illustrator of several picture books, most recently Dumplings for Lilli. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.