FAKE CHINESE SOUNDS: An Interview with author/illustrator Jing Jing Tsong
Travis: It was a pleasure talking with Jing Jing Tsong about her excellent graphic novel debut, 2024’s Fake Chinese Sounds. In this episode, Jing Jing shares how she turned a real life event into a comic, that became a picture book, that morphed into a graphic novel.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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