Always Come Home to Me by Belle Yang

Belle Yang adult nonficition, graphic novel, children's picture book

photo credit: Belle's pop, Joseph, 2008. Hat by maggiemae.com

Author Biography

Belle Yang, subject of the PBS documentary, “My Name is Belle,” is frequently asked whether she is primarily a writer or a painter.
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Influences

The immigration journey, moving from Taiwan to Japan at age five and then to America during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, learning English as my third language.

Democracy Spring (1989) and the Tiananmen Massacre which silenced the voices of the Chinese people.

My father's Manchurian stubbornness and my mother's Hakka obstinacy.

The five years of stalking which drove me to writing and painting in solitude.

The benevolent spirit of my great grandfather who was swept out of his estate to wander a beggar under Communism.

Favorite Authors

Chekhov, Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Frost, Van Gogh, Dickinson, David B., Sun-Tzu, Homer

What I'm Reading

I-Ching, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Illiad

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Always Come Home to Me by Belle Yang

Synopsis:

A moving and uplifting tale of two children and their parents, and the beloved pet doves that help them to understand one another."Fei, fei — fly, fly, little birds, but always come home to me!"Mei-Mei and Di-Di are head-over-heels in love with their new doves. Like devoted parents, the siblings tenderly nurture Butterfly and Squeaky as they grow from chicks to fledglings to birds. But when Mei-Mei and Di-Di arrive home to find that the doves have disappeared, their young hearts break into a thousand pieces — and they run away, determined to reclaim their beloved birds. Will Mei-Mei and Di-Di return home with the doves before they break their own parents’ hearts?

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Author Comment:

I learned on May 1st that this little book has garnered The Best Children's Book Award of 2008 from CALA, the Chinese American Librarian Association. It's been a long journey to get this story published, so this is welcome news indeed.