They eventually find a way to bridge that language gap through a mutual love of art. The story is about a boy and his grandfather struggling to connect because of a language barrier. I wanted to pay tribute to my grandparents, particularly my grandfather who passed away last year. My latest published book is …ĭrawn Together, illustrated by Dan Santat, who won the 2015 Caldecott for The Adventures of Beekle. It’s a powerful thing to lose yourself in a book and then re-emerge to see the world with a new clarity. It’s both my escape from the world and how I process/make sense of the world. I write because …Ĭonnecting to readers (particularly children) through the pages of a book is the best kind of magic. Outside of spending time with his beautiful wife and sons in their home near Washington, DC, Minh’s favorite place to be is in the middle of a good book. A first-generation Vietnamese-American, he went to Dartmouth College and has a master’s in education from Harvard University. He is a national early childhood policy expert, author of Let Me Finish! (illustrated by Isabel Roxas), and has written for the New York Times, the Horn Book, and the Huffington Post. Minh Lê is a writer but, like his grandfather, is a man of few words.
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