Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with this sweet story of food and family! In this story designed to engage early readers, charming characters combine with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids’ confidence and create lifelong readers! Jade and Crystal love the Mid-Autumn Festival because it means it’s time to make a tasty treat–mooncakes! Crystal’s favorite part of the delicious dessert made of lotus seed paste is the yummy salted egg yolk at the center, meant to represent the moon. Join the sisters as they gather with their family for a memorable meal together! Complete with fun facts about the holiday in the back of the book, young readers will want to revisit this story again and again. Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.
When author/illustrator Benson Shum is not sleeping, he is drawing or eating. Mostly drawing. By day, he is an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he was a part of such films as Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, and Moana. At night, he can be found sketching in his pajamas with a slice of pie. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Benson now lives in sunny Southern California.
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