A delicious picture book about multiculturalism and community with a delicious recipe for "Grandma's Steamed Buns".
Parents and children can make it together!
Lily, who lives in an apartment, is making steamed buns with her grandmother.
While wrapping, I realized that one ingredient was missing!
Running up and down to borrow from neighbors,
It turns out that everyone is preparing different cultural snacks:
Polish dumplings, Jamaican beef patties, Mexican dumplings,
Ravioli and Lebanese pie!
The author is a third-generation Asian immigrant living in the United States.
She loves cooking with her kids.
I also like to use food to connect with friends and family!
At the end of the story, neighbors from different immigrant backgrounds happily gathered together to have a meal with their own cultural delicacies.
This is a delicious picture book about diverse cultures and communities.
With delicious bun recipes, read stories and make buns.
Let food connect you and me.
＊With phonetic notation
Award-winning record
● Chicago Public Library's Best Book of the Year ● American Association of Teachers of English Charlotte. Hack Award ● Amazon Editor's Choice for Best Picture Book for Children 6-8 ● Star Recommendation by Publishers Weekly and Booklist Magazine
Recommended by all walks of life and praised by the media
Do you all have memories of cooking in the kitchen with your family? The process is both hard and fun, so it is always unforgettable.
Lily likes making dumplings with her grandma the most, but there was a small problem today and she had to run up and down to help everyone solve the food problem. Reading slowly, it seemed as if she had run up many stairs with her and was out of breath! !
This is a very interesting picture book. It not only cleverly integrates the concept of food education (parent-child cooking and prototype ingredients), but also introduces "dumpling-like" foods from various countries. With the heartwarming ending, it makes me want to make dumplings with my children tomorrow! !
——Li Meiling / Chairman of the Taiwan Children's Food Education Association
Like a good dough-filled pastry, this story powerfully combines familiar elements...textured, brightly colored illustrations that exude warmth throughout.
--Kirkus Reviews
It’s a resonant depiction of intergenerational love and a mouth-watering celebration of how food connects a multicultural community.
——"Publishers Weekly" star recommendation
About the Author
Melissa. Melissa Iwai／Author
He is the author and illustrator of the two books "Soup Day" (tentative translation) and "Pizza Day" (tentative translation). He has illustrated more than 30 books in his career, including 30 Minutes Over Oregon, which won the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction. She often combines traditional and digital media in her art, and loves to incorporate the fun of cooking with her children into her works. “I’m a passionate foodie and have always believed in using food to connect with family and friends,” she said. “As a third-generation Asian American, I am fascinated by how immigrants celebrate and honor their culture through traditional cooking. Discovering that small pieces of dough wrapped around sweet or savory fillings, collectively known as dumplings, appear in so many food cultures around the world inspired me to create the story of Lily Cooks Dumplings. I think they are the perfect food to celebrate multiculturalism and community.” When she is not busy creating art, she is often cooking and developing her own recipes. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, son, and Shiba Inu Nikki—a family that loves all things dough-filled.
Huang Xiaoyin/Translator
Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University. Completed the doctoral program (Literature) at the Institute of English Studies, National Taiwan Normal University. He has worked as an editor and translated more than 300 picture books and youth novels. He has also served as a reviewer for the Ministry of Culture's Excellent Extracurricular Reading Materials for Primary and Secondary School Students and the Jiuge Children's Literature Award. In recent years, he has also written columns to promote picture book literature and youth novels. I like the warm and bright atmosphere of "Lily Makes Steamed Buns" and hope that everyone can discover the things they love through reading.