{"id":16420,"date":"2023-06-11T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=16420"},"modified":"2023-06-11T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:58:24","slug":"valerie-kaiyang-wood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/valerie-kaiyang-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Kaiyang Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Valerie Kaiyang Wood was born in China and adopted to Canada as a baby. Her experience as a transracial adoptee informs her picture book Vee in Between. Wood lives in Ottawa and works as a museum curator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/06\/Vee-in-Between-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16422 lazyload\" width=\"193\" height=\"193\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/06\/Vee-in-Between-book-cover.jpg 327w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/06\/Vee-in-Between-book-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/06\/Vee-in-Between-book-cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 193px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 193\/193;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vee in Between<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Illustrated by Angela Poon.<br>Toronto: Second Story Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Vee\u2019s favorite bedtime story is the night she met her parents. When Vee was nine months old, they flew to China to bring her home. But when she struggles to keep up in Chinese dance class and a woman at the grocery store makes Vee feel like she doesn\u2019t belong, her white parents don\u2019t always understand. Vee wants to embrace every part of herself, but it\u2019s hard when it feels like she has to choose. With help from another adoptee, can Vee find a way to celebrate being in between?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/secondstorypress.ca\/\">Second Story Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Kaiyang Wood was born in China and adopted to Canada as a baby. Her experience as a transracial adoptee informs her picture book Vee in Between. Wood lives in Ottawa and works as a museum curator. Fiction (Juvenile, Picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/valerie-kaiyang-wood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16428,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16420\/revisions\/16428"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}