Further Reading_S4_E05_Jack Wong

Jack Wong (黃雋喬) was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. In 2010, he left behind a life as a bridge engineer to pursue his Bachelor of Fine Arts at NSCAD University in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia; he has called the east coast of Canada home ever since. A self-declared actual Jack-of-all-trades, he has also tried his hand at bookkeeping, teaching art, managing a psychology research lab, and running his own bicycle repair shop, just to name a few—a real education for creating children’s books, if you ask him! Working as a children’s author/illustrator, Jack seeks to share his winding journey with young readers so that they may embrace the unique amalgams of experiences that make up their own lives. Jack’s debut picture book, When You Can Swim (Scholastic), received the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in Picture Books, the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award in Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books, the 2024 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was a finalist for the Ezra Jack Keats Award. His second picture book, The Words We Share (Annick Press), received the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature, and was shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association’s Blue Spruce Award. His other titles include All That Grows (Groundwood), The Music Inside Us: Yo-Yo Ma & His Gifts to the World (written by James Howe, Abrams) and a forthcoming title from Scholastic. Find Jack at the links below. Website: https://jackwong.ca/ Instagram: @jacquillo You can find Jack’s book The Music Inside Us here: https://jackwong.ca/the-music-inside-us If you're interested in creative writing, the University of King's College MFA in Creative Writing might be for you. Find out more at: ukings.ca/area-of-study/writing-and-publishing/ Subscribe to Further Reading: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…480/sounds.rss Contact us: kingsfurtherreading@gmail.com Thanks as always to our friends at the King’s Co-op Bookstore. kingsbookstore.ca/