{"id":19536,"date":"2024-12-30T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=19536"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:56:11","slug":"stephanie-ellen-sy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/stephanie-ellen-sy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Ellen Sy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stephanie Sy is a Filipino-Chinese-Canadian writer and interior designer from Toronto. Sy was born in the Philippines and grew up in Hong Kong and also lived in Italy and the United States. She earned a degree in International Relations and Asian Studies from Tufts University. Sy seeks to explore diverse and multiple cultures in her picture books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Roof!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Daniel Tingcungco.
New York: Kokila, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Typhoons are a regular part of Maya\u2019s life in the Philippines, but after this storm, she finds something unusual in her backyard\u2014a roof! There\u2019s an address written on it, and Maya is determined to return it to its family. She\u2019ll need help to make her way through the damage left behind by the typhoon. As she sets out with her tatay, Maya collaborates with a farmer and his carabao, a couple of fishers and their boat, a sapatero, a labandera, a kusinera, and more of her neighbors. Together, they sail around knotted tree roots, hauling,<\/small> heaving, pushing, and dragging the roof until they find its family\u2014and begin to rebuild their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told by Stephanie Ellen Sy in a cumulative structure that begs to be read aloud, and paired with Daniel Tingcungco\u2019s lush and cinematic illustrations, A Roof! <\/em>is a story about community care that celebrates the Filipino spirit of bayanihan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You Can’t Tame a Tiger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Julien Chung.
Toronto: Owlkids, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A young boy knows his pet tiger, Imran, is awesome. The only problem is that Imran doesn\u2019t look <\/em>like a tiger. To show off his cool pet and impress the other kids, the boy tries to \u201cfix\u201d Imran\u2019s appearance by painting him orange and giving him zig-zag stripes. But Imran won\u2019t play along. Instead of accepting the changes, Imran stays true to himself and insists, \u201cYou can\u2019t tame a tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imran knows he\u2019s a tiger, even if he doesn\u2019t fit the tiger image that his friend has in his mind. Eventually, the boy realizes that his mistake was forcing Imran to be anything other than exactly who he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This humorous and profound story combines narrative text, dialogue bubbles, and expressive art to remind readers that you don\u2019t have to change the unique things about yourself to be accepted and remarkable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Ellen Sy personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Kokila<\/a> an imprint of Penguin Random House<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Owlkids<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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