Little White Duck
A Childhood in China
Illustrator: Andrés Vera Martínez
Binding: Paperback
Age 9+
Graphic Novels Comic Strip Fiction / Graphic Novels
A look into the origins of modern China from the perspective of a child.
Six short stories from the life of a girl growing up in China during the years of rapid social and economic change in the 1980s and 1990s after the death of Chairman Mao, based on Na Liu's own childhood and family tales.
Creators
Author/artist Andres Vera Martinez has previously published with Scholastic (39 Clues project) and Simon & Schuster (Before They Were Famous: Babe Ruth) and is an editorial cartoonist for The New York Times.
Na Liu is a doctor of hematology and oncology. She moved from Wuhan, China, to Austin, Texas, in 1998 to work as a research scientist for MD Anderson Cancer Center. She met her husband, Andres Vera Martfnez, in Austin.
Na Liu and Andres Vera Martinez live in Brooklyn, New York, with their daughter, Mei Lan. They take annual trips to visit their families in Wuhan and Austin.
