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Andrea Cheng


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The United States
Died
December 26, 2015

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Andrea Cheng is a Hungarian-American children's author and illustrator. The child of Hungarian immigrants, she was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio in an extended family with three generations under one roof. Her family spoke Hungarian and English at home. After graduating with a BA in English from Cornell University, she went to Switzerland, where she apprenticed to a bookbinder, attended a school of bookbinding called The Centro del Bel Libro, and learned French. Upon her return, she returned to Cornell to study Chinese and earned an MS in linguistics. Now she teaches English as a Second Language at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. Her children’s books include Grandfather Counts, Marika, The Key Collection, Honeysuckle House, W ...more

Average rating: 3.91 · 6,692 ratings · 1,127 reviews · 29 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Year of the Book (Anna ...

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The Year of the Baby (Anna ...

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The Year of the Fortune Coo...

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Marika

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Etched in Clay: The Life of...

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The Year of the Three Siste...

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The Year of the Garden (Ann...

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Only One Year

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The Lemon Sisters

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Anna the Bookbinder

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The Year of the Book The Year of the Baby The Year of the Fortune Cookie The Year of the Three Sisters The Year of the Garden
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Quotes by Andrea Cheng  (?)
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“Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?"

"Peng you," I say.

"Peng you," she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.”
Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Book
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“A baby cannot gain weight without eating,”
Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Baby

“Don’t worry about what other people think or what race they are. People are people.”
Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Fortune Cookie

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