Amy Wu and the Warm Welcome (English)

Amy Wu does her best to make her new classmate feel welcome in this warmhearted and playfully illustrated follow-up picture book to Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao and Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon

Amy’s class has a new student from China!

Amy tries hard to make Lin feel included, but she can’t draw him out of his shell. Then she sees Lin chattering happily in Chinese with his family.

The gears in her head start to turn, and a plan blossoms.

Step one: invite Lin to her dumpling party… ​

With a little help from her grandma and a shiny new banner, can Amy give Lin the warmest welcome?

Author Kat Zhang loves traveling to places both real and fictional—the former have better souvenirs, but the latter allow for dragons, so it’s a tough pick. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she now spends her free time scribbling poetry, taking photographs, and climbing atop things she shouldn’t.

Illustrator Charlene Chua draws many things, from baos to dragons to, literally, the kitchen sink. When she is not drawing, she enjoys playing or talking to her cats (they listen politely, most of the time). Charlene grew up in Singapore and now lives in Canada. Her favourite bao are "char siu" bao!

Hardcover | 40 pages | 27.94 x 22.86cm