Grace Lin at {pages} a bookstore

Sunday was an action-packed book day for me. Before heading to the SCIBA event, I dropped by my indie bookstore, {pages} a bookstore, to see Grace Lin. Grace's 2010 Newbery Honor-winning book, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, is a 2012-2013 California Young Reader Medal nominee so I was eager to meet her. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get my library's copy of the book signed because my time was short and, not surprisingly, it was a packed crowd.

Grace read from Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same and The Year of the Rat. Here she is reading from Ling and Ting:


And then she treated us to a mini lesson on how to draw a dragon. Unfortunately, because I was far away from her and using an older smart phone camera, I wasn't able to zoom in while filming. I edited the footage with some additional footage of me drawing along to her explanation; the video is about 8 minutes long. So, without further ado, here's my first attempt at making an iMovie:

[click on the image above to go directly to the video on TeacherTube]

Grace's completed dragon:


Keep an eye out for Grace's new book, Starry River of the Sky, which comes out on October 2, 2012.

To read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon:



And in case you're wondering, yes, I bought some books while I was at {pages}. I couldn't help it! (These are for my library.)

 

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