Funny Afro: All three wear sparkly, red afros that take up almost the entirety of their heads.He noticed how poorly the Chorus Kids were, and got permission from the other two members to go solo and help the trio out. Canon Character All Along: The conductor who helps the Chorus Kids perform in harmony is actually one of the members of the Clappy Trio.Three lions who are roaming performers, doing clap routines to impress their thousands of fans.
Janet Wong lives with her husband and son in Princeton, New Jersey.Appears in: Tengoku, Heaven (cameo), Fever (cameo), & Megamix In addition to writing, Janet Wong visits classrooms and speaks at conferences. Other books playfully address topics with which Wong has less direct experience, such as yoga and dumpster diving. Some of Wong’s books, like Apple Pie Fourth of July, explore the tension between having immigrant roots and wanting to be accepted as an American. Her courageous career change later became the subject of a segment on the Oprah Winfrey Show called "Remembering Your Spirit”". Janet Wong sold her first book of poems, Good Luck Gold, eighteen months after she quit her job as a lawyer. While taking a writing class, Wong realized that poetry, her least favorite genre in elementary school, might in fact become her most successful genre as a writer.
After discussing it with her husband, Wong quit her job, started writing, and quickly piled up rejection letters.
One day, as she was shopping in a children’s book store, it struck her that what she really wanted to do was write books for children. While working as the Director of Labor Relations at Universal Studios, Wong realized that she was unhappy in her line of work. She later earned a law degree from Yale and spent the next four years practicing law. And she wasn’t much of a reader either — she found reading to be too quiet and lonely.Īt the University of California in Los Angeles, Janet Wong studied history. In fact, she hated poetry in elementary school because of the way it was taught. There were no early signs that Janet would become an author or a poet. While growing up in California, she enjoyed watching TV with her dad, playing with her friends, catching lizards, and riding her skateboard. She was the daughter of a Chinese father and a Korean mother. Janet Wong was born in Los Angeles in 1962.
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