Betty Quan has written and/or adapted over a dozen acclaimed plays for stage and radio. Mother Tongue was nominated for a Jessie Award for best new play, as well as the 1996 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Betty’s professional credits also encompass writing and story editing for film and television, and she has published fiction for young readers. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and is a member of both the Playwrights Union of Canada and the Writers’ Guild of Canada.

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Carmen Mok is a studio-art graduate of the University of Waterloo, and a crafts and design graduate of Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada. Her books include Waiting for Sophie by Sarah Ellis, Look at Me Now by Carol McDougall and Shanda LaRamee-Jones, and Ride the Big Machines in Winter. She recently illustrated Grandmother’s Visit by Betty Quan, which was named an Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Picture Book Honor Title, was on the shortlist of the IODE Ontario Jean Throop Book Award and was selected for the Ontario Library Association Best Bets List. Carmen lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.

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• Commended, Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Picture Book

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