Milly Lee
Featured Speaker - Saturday Luncheon

CATE President Michelle Berry presents awards for Classroon Excellence and Award of Merit.

Paige Tucker, student of Ridgeview High School in Bakersfield, talks about the accomplishments of Francine Prose, this year's California Young Reader Medal winner. Ms. Prose was not able to be present to accept the award.

Pat Lindsay, retired Library Media Teacher and CYRM Committee Member explain the California Young Reader Medal.

James Burress, eighth grader at Divisidero School in Visalia introduces the featured speaker, Milly Lee.

Milly Lee, Author Milly Lee grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown. She attended Chinese school after the regular school day and spoke Cantonese at home and in the neighborhood. Nim and the War Effort, Milly's first book for children, is autobiographical, but speaks directly to the experiences of all bicultural children in their struggles to find who they are. Milly revisits Chinatown in her picture books Earthquake and Landed, both based on the experiences of her relatives. Mily Lee returned to college - the University of California at Berkeley and the University of san Francisco - to become a school librarian. She worked at Burlingame's Lincoln Elementary School, the Sonoma Valley High School, and the Sonoma County Office of Education. Since they retired in 1991, Milly and her husband, Kearn, have traveled to many of the places they read about but never dared to dream of when they were growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown. BIBLIOGRAPHY