Kid Review – Miya’s Mooncakes – picture book
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Book Title: Miya’s Mooncakes by Crystal Z. Lee
Category: Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-7), 40 pages
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Publisher: Balestier Press
Publication Date: June, 2026.
Tour dates: Sep 8 to Sep 28
Content Rating: G
It’s almost time for Miya’s favorite holiday, the Mid-Autumn Festival. She loves all the holiday traditions: moon gazing, lighting lanterns, and best of all, baking and eating mooncakes! Miya notices that many in her town seem to have lost the holiday spirit lately, including those in her school and in her family. Miya has an idea to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in a more meaningful manner this year. It will involve some extra special mooncakes and the entire neighborhood. Can Miya pull it off in time for the festival?
This is a story of ingenuity, empathy, creating new traditions while honoring old ones. It’s also an ode to neighbors, immigrants, and all those that make up a community!
My Kid Review
Lee, Crystal Z. Miya’s Mooncakes. Illustrated by Allie Su. London: Balestier Press, 2026.
If you are looking for a book to help explore different cultures, Miya’s Mooncakes just might be it. Lee has traveled extensively and visited many cultures. I love that she shares her knowledge through picture books.
Miya’s Mooncakes explores the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (something I knew nothing about). Lovable Miya has a heart for others. She wants to share her culture with her neighbors (who come from a wide variety of cultures different from hers). In doing so, she brings the neighborhood together in a way that only an outgoing little girl can. Lee has written a delightful story in Miya’s Mooncakes.
Su’s illustrations do a great job of showing the different cultures. They help little ones unfamiliar with them get a taste of those cultures.
Miya’s Mooncakes would be a great addition to either the picture book section or the nonfiction holiday section of any K-12 school library.
I received a complimentary copy of Miya’s Mooncakes. This is my honest review.
Crystal Z. Lee is a writer who divides her time between the U.S. and Asia. She is an avid traveler. Her favorite travel memories include island hopping in Italy, hiking the Ever White Mountain near the border of North Korea, sipping afternoon tea in Portuguese palaces and Irish castles, admiring Peranakan tiles in Singapore, sailing in the Aegean Sea, trekking on a biblical archaeological expedition in Türkiye, voyaging to UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and making mooncakes and pineapple cakes in Taiwan. Her stories are often inspired by her journeys. Besides children’s books, Crystal’s other published works consist of poetry and a novel. She is also the author of Pei’s Pineapple Cakes, Mei’s Mermaid Mission, Kai the Dancing Butterfly, A Unicorn Named Rin, and Love and Other Moods.
Allie Su grew up in Yunlin county, Taiwan. She often finds her illustration inspiration from the great outdoors. One of her favorite places to hike in Taiwan is Sun-Link-Sea Forest in Nantou. She adores Taiwanese cuisine and night market foods, such as stinky tofu, vegetarian noodles and taro pastries from Taichung. Allie also illustrated Mei’s Mermaid Mission and Kai the Dancing Butterfly.
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