Simple words, sturdy pages, and a beloved story make these books the perfect vehicle for early learning with an erudite twist. Jack Wang has crafted deeply affecting stories that not only subvert expectations but contend with mortality and delicately draw out the intimacies and failings of love.Cuddle up with a classic! In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, each book in this ingenious series captures the essence of a literary masterpiece. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive while yearning to reconcile with his estranged wife.įrom the vulnerable and disenfranchised to the educated and elite, the characters in this extraordinary collection embody the diversity of the diaspora at key moments in history and in contemporary times. A family struggles to buy a home in South Africa, during the rise of apartheid. The consul general of China attempts to save lives following Kristallnacht in Vienna. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s.
Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. His story “The Night of Broken Glass” was shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His story “The Nature of Things” that was first published in The Malahat Review was shortlisted for The Journey Prize (v. The publication of his short story collection We Two Alone promises to bring his previously published, acclaimed stories to a wider audience. They told Marsha Lederman of the Globe and Mail that Jack “takes first crack” at the stories while Holman takes a lead role in creating and photographing most of the felt figures used to tell the stories.
Jack and Holman have attained some acclaim as the co-creators of the twelve-word board books for young children in the Cozy Classics series and the Star Wars Epic Yarns series. of Writing at Ithaca College in New York state. Jack Wang is currently an associate professor in the Dept.
in English with an emphasis on creative writing from the Florida State University in 2006. in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1997. in biology and anthropology from the University of Toronto in 1994 followed by an M.F.A. Jack Wang and his twin brother Holman were born in Taiwan and moved with their family to Vancouver while they were still infants.
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