Belle Yang
adult nonficition, graphic novel, children's picture book

Belle Yang's Reviews

Reviews of Belle’s Work

May.25.2012 A Nest in Springtime Published by Kirkus Reviews Chinese Lessons in Board Books by Julie Danielson on May 25, 2012 \| Posted in Children's I don’t write often enough about board books for the youngest of... Continue Reading »	May.13.2012 Summertime Rainbow Published by New York Times SUMMERTIME RAINBOWA Bilingual Book of Colors.Written and illustrated by Belle Yang.24 pp. Candlewick Press. $6.99. (Board book; ages 1 to 4) Published with a... Continue Reading »
Apr.16.2012 Summertime Rainbow Published by Publisher's Weekly Children's Summertime Rainbow: A Bilingual Book of Colors Belle Yang. Candlewick, $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5280-7 Three pudgy gouache rabbits explore the... Continue Reading »	Published by Gawker Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale Naturally parallels will be drawn between Belle Yang's graphic novel account of her family's history in China and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club,... Continue Reading »
Dec.03.2010 Published by Barnes and Nobles Review Top 20 books of 2010 according to Barnes & Nobles Editors. Continue Reading »	Published by Bloomsbury Review Already lauded for her exquisitely illustrated family stories – Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, The Odyssey of a Manchurian, as well as numerous children’s... Continue Reading »
Aug.15.2010 Published by London Times Literary Supplement Drawing, and specifically calligraphy, also offer the Taiwanese-born American author Belle Yang a spiritual escape, in her case from ‘Rotten Egg’, an abusive boyfriend-turned-... Continue Reading »	Jul.12.2010 Published by Huffington Post "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." --Lao-tsu The graphic novel, Forget Sorrow, by Belle Yang masterfully depicts the story of her father's family in China... Continue Reading »
Jul.07.2010 Published by Metro San Jose " . . . After some 10 pages into Forget Sorrow, you realize you’re in the hands of a serious storyteller. Yang uses the graphic-novel format for its full potential—to add layers... Continue Reading »	Jun.12.2010 Published by Comic Book Resources Belle Yang's latest, Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale, is published by W. W. Norton & Company and costs a mere twenty-three dollars and ninety-five cents. Okay, that's a tiny... Continue Reading »
Jun.30.2010 Published by SF Chronicle (06-30) 04:00 PDT Carmel - -- Author-painter Belle Yang is watching her 82-year-old father read her new graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow." Using a red pen and Chinese characters, Zu-... Continue Reading »	Jun.05.2010 Published by Comic Book Bin . . . . "Forget Sorrow isn’t just a graphic novel or graphic narrative; it’s more like a comic book epic. Belle makes practically every panel a story onto itself, complete with... Continue Reading »
May.28.2010 Published by Barnes and Noble Reviews Labels: * memoir May 28, 2010 Forget Sorrow By BELLE YANG Reviewed by Melissa H. Pierson The graphic memoir is a form that seems particularly well suited to conveying what is... Continue Reading »	May.13.2010 Published by Wall Street Journal There’s a saying in Chinese, “a gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” (To continue reading and watch video, click link below.) Continue Reading »
May.13.2010 Published by Monterey County Weekly Large Medium Belle Yang’s debut graphic novel, Forget Sorrow, is a big breakthrough. By Walter Ryce Author and artist Belle Yang’s storybooks are drawn in a Chinese folk art... Continue Reading »

About Belle

Belle Yang, subject of the PBS documentary, “My Name is Belle,” is often asked whether she is primarily a writer or a painter. Answer: "When I'm writing, I'm a writer; when I'm painting, I'm a painter." Is she a children's author or writers of adult...

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