A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin (Farsi)

The Book “A Big Mooncake for Little Star” is written by Grace Lin. Grace Lin (born May 17, 1974) is a Taiwanese-American children’s writer and illustrator. Lin was born to Taiwanese immigrants in New Hartford, New York in 1974 and grew up in upstate New York with her parents and two sisters. She and her sisters were the only Asian students at their elementary school. She later graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving her BFA in Illustration. She married Robert Mercer in 2001. When he was diagnosed with cancer, he and Lin created the fundraiser Robert’s Snow: For Cancer’s Cure based on Lin’s children’s book, Robert’s Snow. Lin and Mercer invited children’s book illustrators to paint wooden snowflakes which were then auctioned off to raise money for cancer research. The fundraiser auction was held twice, raising about $200,000. Upon Mercer’s death in 2007, the fundraiser was discontinued. She remarried in 2010 to Alexandre Ferron, with whom she has a daughter, Hazel, born in 2012. Lin resides in Somerville, Massachusetts with her family.