Biography

LeUyen Pham is the best-selling and award-winning creator of more than one hundred books for children, including The Princess in Black, the Real Friends series and Itty-Bitty-Kitty-Corn with Shannon Hale, the Vampirina picture book series with Anne-Marie Pace (now a Disney Junior show), and The Itchy Book, a collaboration with Mo Willems. Her own picture books include Big Sister, Little Sister and Outside, Inside, about our year in lockdown. In 2020, she won the Caldecott Honor for Bear Came Along, by Richard Morris.

Books

Lunar New Year Love Story

Lunar New Year Love Story

She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed her love.
Val is ready to give up on love. It’s led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she’s pretty sure she’s cursed—no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love.
But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?