Chun Yu

Chun Yu is the author of LITTLE GREEN: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, an award-winning memoir published by Simon & Schuster (2005). She is also one of the authors of Veteran of War, Veteran of Peace, an anthology edited by Maxine Hong Kingston (Koa Books, 2006). She is currently working on two books that continue the story of Little Green and a historical graphic novel (to be published by First Second of Roaring Brook Press). Since the publication of Little Green, Chun Yu lectured in schools, universities, libraries, museums and bookstores around the country about her book and the culture and history of China. Chun Yu holds a B.S. and M.S. in chemistry from Peking University (Beijing University), a Ph.D. in biomaterials from Rutgers University, she was granted a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical engineering by Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Science and Technology. Yu worked as a medical researcher before the publication of her first book. LITTLE GREEN has won the following awards and recognitions: 1. The Parents' Choice Award 2005 2. Voice of Young Advocates' Poetry Picks 2005 3. Society of School Librarians International Book Award Honor Book 2006 4. Best Book Award honorable mention by Chinese American Librarians' Association 2006 5. New York Public Library's Books for Teen Age 2006 6. Notable Social Studies Trade Book by the National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children's Book Council (CBC) 2006 7. International Reading Association (IRA) Children's Book Award Notable 2007 8. California Collections by California Readers 2007