The Spotlight
August 2018 - Immedium
1. NEWS
A. Help launch Fireworks on Kickstarter
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Get a sneak peek of our upcoming story
The Discovery of Fireworks & Gunpowder on Kickstarter.
Our campaign has one week left (finishing on Friday, August 10th at noon) and we're 3/4 the way there!
We invite you to take a look and pre-order an autographed book.
This is the sequel in our series The Asian Hall of Fame.
The red panda Dao guides Emma and Ethan to ancient China! Zipping back to the future, they learn how gunpowder fueled the development of fireworks, which everyone now enjoys!
- this will be the first English storybook on these inventions.
Backers get cool rewards like limited edition prints, illustrated by artist Juan Calle.
We appreciate your support!
B. Immedium at SF Japantown
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This weekend is the 45th annual Nihonmachi festival in Japantown in San Francisco, CA.
- August 4 & 5: 11am - 6pm
30,000 attendees will celebrate Japanese cultural heritage and San Francisco's diversity with music, food, and fun.
See our colorful storybooks at the booths of Little Buddha Baby and Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
Check out
- The Discovery of Ramen
- Tales from the Chinese Zodiac
- The Octonauts
- Sora and the Cloud
- Julie Black Belt and more!
C. Sharing Heritage in Colorado
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Author Oliver Chin will present at 22nd annual Chinese Heritage Camp during Labor Day weekend in Colorado.
Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families (HCAF) assists children, adults, and families in becoming a part of a larger community “just like themselves,” with shared experiences, challenges, and opportunities.
Families who have adopted children from China meet at Snow Mountain Ranch YMCA in Fraser, Colorado.
Oliver enlivens The Year of the Dog with kids and shares other storybooks with adults from around the country.
2. REVIEWS
Boy Dumplings
by Ying Chang Compestine, art by James Yamasaki
"Compestine spins out this variant on a classic trickster tale, developing both characters and premise with humor. Yamasaki sets the tale in a Beijing of yore, with cobbled streets and tile-roofed homes. An author’s note gives cultural context for this original tale and a recipe for Boy-Free Dumplings."
- Kirkus Reviews
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Desert to Dream
by Barbara Traub
"Traub's images capture the festival's spirit in lots of zany costumes and art installations celebrating off-kilter takes on contemporary culture and the participants' flights of fancy...Good visual fun and countercultural documentation, this is vibrant stuff in these grim days, a must for pop-culture collections."
- Booklist, American Library Association
3.
EVENTS
AUGUST
8/31-9/3: Oliver Chin: Chinese Heritage Camp, Fraser, CO
SEPTEMBER
9/15-16: San Francisco Dragonboat Festival, Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
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Have fun in the sun!
Immedium
P.O. Box 31846
San Francisco, CA 94131
orders@immedium.com
Immedium, Inc. inspires a world of imagination, and creates entertaining books that have multi-dimensional appeal. Based in San Francisco, CA, Immedium sits on the Pacific Rim, a vibrant intersection for crossover cultural trends from Asia and America. Embracing an increasingly diverse and "multimedia" world, Immedium publishes titles ranging from eye-catching children's books and contemporary non-fiction to commentaries on art and popular culture. Visit us at www.immedium.com
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