About the Author

Anna Tso, PhD, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Open University of Hong Kong. Interested in language arts and children's literature in Hong Kong, she has published research articles in peer-reviewed journals across Asia, Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Her books include Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students (Springer, 2017) and Academic Writing for Arts and Humanities Students (McGraw-Hill Education, 2016). She does use her published books in her English language and literature classes. If the Hong Kong Children's Stories series is published, she will use it in her class and share it in the reading clubs she leads for the Hong Kong Public Libraries. Book series illustrator: Joanne Lo was born in Canada and raised both in Toronto and Hong Kong. Growing up and living on a beautiful outlying island called Cheung Chau, she has a special love for nature, animals, art and one's spiritual growth. She began her career in creative media since graduating from university majoring in Cultural Studies and Visual Studies. She is the illustrator of Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students (Springer, 2017), a book housed in the Yale and Harvard University Libraries and downloaded for over 4,850 times since its publication. Currently, she is working on a funded children's book series about Hong Kong memories.