Yang Hongying

China's best-selling author, Yang Hongying, is reading from her best-selling stories for 4- to 8-year-olds tomorrow at 10:30am at the Bookworm, and beijingkids has a few spare tickets to the event to give away! If you'd like to go, send us an email to info@beijing-kids.com before 5pm today. We will reply to the first respondents and arrange to have the tickets at the door for you. Please indicate the number of tickets desired (max 4 per family).

Meanwhile, here's an interview of Yang Hongying from the March edition of beijingkids:

Best-selling children's author Yang Hongying is frequently referred to as China's J.K. Rowling,due to her success and popularity among young Chinese readers. Previously a teacher and currently an editor at a children's literary magazine, Hongying writes from her experience with children. In fact, it was her daughter who inspired her to write Girl's Diary, the novel that first brought her fame. Hongying continues to charm millions with mischievousMa Xiaotiao from the Mo's Mischief series.

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China's best-selling children's author Yang Hongying, is also China's weathiest. Photo by Chen Tuanjie / for China Daily

Tune into the beijingkids blog each Thursday as we take you on a quick tour of interesting and relevant items from around the web, all relating (however tangentially) to parenthood and family life in Beijing.

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