About Laolao’s Dumplings

Millie loves to help LaoLao cook, especially her favorite dish. Dumplings! They gather fresh ingredients from Chinatown. Chives from Auntie Lim, shrimp from Uncle Lee, and juicy, fragrant lychees that make their days together so sweet.

As the seasons change, LaoLao feels more and more tired, too tired to make dumplings. But can Millie make them without LaoLao? And will her dumplings come out delicious, and make LaoLao happy, too?

Full of humor, heart, and wholly original illustrations, this story is a timeless celebration of family, food, community, and the different ways we share love.

Dane Liu is the author of FRIENDS ARE FRIENDS, FOREVER, a Kids' Indie Next List pick, a JLG Gold Standard Selection, and a Gold House Book Club pick. She co-wrote AMAZING: ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS WHO INSPIRE US ALL with Maia and Alex Shibutani, which celebrated its launch at Yu & Me. As a kid, Dane spent many hours reading and daydreaming at the Chinese antique store, where her mama worked, by Toronto’s Chinatown and visiting all the aunties and uncles at the different shops. She went to grad school in NYC and now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Shinyeon Moon is an NYC-based artist and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her public-art projects include assisting artist Katie Yamasaki with murals for PS369 in Brooklyn and for Reentry Rocks, a nonprofit reentry program run by previously incarcerated women and their families. LAOLAO’S DUMPLINGS is her debut children’s book. Her next kid-lit project is ONCE UPON A FRIEND by Dan Gemeinhart (Henry Holt BYR).