By Michael M. Jones | Dec 18, 2020
For as long as she can remember, Van Hoang has been a writer, so the release of
Girl Giant and the Monkey King (Roaring Brook) is the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition. “When I was a kid, I had this notebook,” she says. “I was obsessed about not having enough pages, so I’d write these stories and then go back and erase them, so I’d have more room to keep writing. We probably had plenty of notebooks, but I was afraid of running out of paper.”
Inspired by work such as Patricia C. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles and Neil Gaiman’s