Inspired by Wang’s own experiences, it traces a young girl’s emerging connection to her Chinese heritage that arises from an everyday occurrence - gathering watercress by the side of the road on a family trip.
“Watercress” is set in 1970s Ohio with flashbacks to China a generation earlier. Since its debut in March 2021, “Watercress” also earned the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was earlier named a New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and a New England Book Award Winner. Wang, who is a graduate of Wellesley College and Lesley University’s Writing for Young People MFA program, also won a Newbery Honor for “Watercress,” an unusual distinction for a picture book.
In January, Vermont-based artist Jason Chin was awarded the 2022 Randolph Caldecott Medal for illustrating “Watercress,” written by Andrea Wang and published by Neal Porter Books/Holiday House.
"Watercress" by Andrea Wang and illustrated by Jason Chin Courtesy of Holiday House Publishing, Inc
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