Jinyi and her sister love visiting Auntie and Uncle Yang's home, where they enjoy dumpling-eating contests and backyard adventures with their cousins. One weekend, on a Sunday drive among the cornfields near Chicago, Auntie Yang spots something she has never before seen in Illinois. Could it be one of their favorite Chinese foods-soybeans?!

Excited by their discovery, the families have their very first soybean picnic. Every year after that, Auntie Yang invites more people to share the food and fun. Pretty soon more than two hundred friends and neighbors are gathering at the picnic to play games and eat soybeans together.

Unique illustrations painted on ceramic plates lend a quirky charm to this lighthearted inter-generational story. Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic is a delicious celebration of family traditions, culture, and community that will have readers asking for seconds, thirds, and more.

About the Author and Illustrator 

GINNIE LO and BETH LO are sisters who grew up in the Indiana. Their parents immigrated from China, and Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic is inspired by their memories of growing up Chinese American, including the traditional foods and stories they loved and a large, close community of family and friends.    

Ginnie Lo is a retired computer science professor who taught at the University of Oregon for many years. She enjoys hiking, international folk dancing, playing mahjong, and traveling- especially taking family trips to China. The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband in Eugene, Oregon.  

Beth Lo is an internationally recognized ceramic artist who has earned numerous awards and grants for her artwork, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a United States Artists Hoi Fellowship. She also teaches art at the University of Montana and plays upright and electric bass in two bands. She has one grown son and she and her husband make their home in Missoula, Montana.