Author Tae Keller When you Trap a Tiger with Jason Han

Tae Keller is an American children's book author.  She is the award-winning author of The Science of Breakable Things and When You Trap a Tiger.

When You Trap a Tiger, won the 2021 American Library Association John Newbery Medal. The book tells the story of Lily and her relationship with her aging and ill Korean grandmother, wrapped around the Korean folktales her grandmother tells her at bedtime. When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal–return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni’s health–Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice…and the courage to face a tiger.

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Tae's mother is award winner author Nora Okja Keller. Her first novel Comfort Woman won the American Book Award in 1998 and the 1999 Elliot Cades Award. Previously, in 1995, Keller won the Pushcart Prize for a short story, "Mother-Tongue", which became the second chapter of Comfort Woman. In 2003, she won the Hawai'i Award for Literature.

Jason Han MD is integrated cardiac surgery resident. He received his bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience at Columbia University and received his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine. He is a writer for the healthcare section of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and publishes on Medium. He is interested in heart failure, and clinical ethics and plans to pursue a career in academic cardiac surgery.

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