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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher
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NANA, NENEK, AND NINA

Liza Ferneyhough

A beautiful picture book about a biracial girl named Nina and her visits to her two faraway grandmas who live in different countries - with a fun seek-and-find element!
Nina loves visiting her two faraway grandmas--one in England and one in Malaysia. Spot the differences between their homes in this beautiful picture book.

Nina lives in San Francisco with her parents, and she loves visiting her two grandmas across the world. Follow Nina as she travels to England to visit Nana and to Malaysia to visit Nenek. Nina needs different kinds of clothes and plays different kinds of games in each place. Nana and Nenek cook different kinds of food. And Nina's day looks different in each grandma's house. But so much about each visit is the same: Nina brings her whole self with her across the world, from England to Malaysia, and both of her grandmas love her to San Francisco and back.

Liza Ferneyhough is an illustrator living in San Francisco by way of Malaysia, England, Silicon Valley, and Austin, TX. She was born in Kuala Lumpur, and grew up mostly in California, the oldest of four kids in a family with passports from three different countries. She loves drawing locales both far and near, multicultural and multiracial girls, food, plants, letterforms, fairytales, bugs, and other assorted beasties and natural oddities. Nana, Nenek, and Nina is her first picture book.
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Published 2022-08-09 by Dial Books for Young Readers

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Nina's visits with her grandmothers are shown side-by-side on well-designed pages, with an engaging, accessible text and featuring cozy yet vibrant illustrations... Differing background colors, patterns, and cultural motifs signify the two different settings, with the unifying features being open arms and warm hearts... In whichever setting she finds herself, Nina feels secure in her family's love and secure in her own identity as a contemporary bicultural child.

[Ferneyhough's] beloved memories clearly inspire her whimsical, heartwarming debut, painted on tea-strained paper with gorgeous watercolors, all dazzlingly enhanced by her ingenious presentation. Read more...

This warmly illustrated intergenerational picture book is both sweet and clever. Read more...

This graceful, meticulously detailed picture book is a loving ode to two cultures... Young readers will want to circle back to pore over the precise renderings of each place's characteristics and to relive the day with Nana, Nenek, and Nina.

Though life with each of her grandmothers is different, ultimately Nina finds love with both of them in this gentle tale. The illustrations are studded with homey details, and the warm tones add to the welcoming and cozy atmosphere. A lovely story, grounded in visual details, about how identity can be uncomplicated.

SEVEN IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST covered NANA, NENEK & NINA and shared several interior spreads! Read more...

Balancing images, patterns, and hues, these juxtapositions convey the ease with which Nina lives in three cultures - and the affection she receives in each - in a book that conveys differences and similarities bound together by love, and offers a joyful narrative of multicultural childhood.

...clever same-and-different book... Differences abound, but spotting similarities is also fun and instructive... this engaging book will widen the world for young listeners and their families, no matter their locations or origins.

Rooting her story in concrete, homey details, Ferneyhough makes clear that loved ones separated by distance can still enjoy rich, meaningful relationships. Read more...

NANA, NENEK, AND NINA is a winner of the American Library Association's Awards: NANA, NENEK & NINA BY LIZA FERNEYHOUGH RECEIVES A 2023 ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD HONOR FOR LITERATURE IN THE PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY

IMAGINATION SOUP included NANA, NENEK & NINA in their August round up and noted its "atmospheric, lovely illustrations." Read more...

Nana, Nenek & Nina is one of 20 debut works in the BolognaRagazzi Opera Prima category of BRAW that will be part of this year's BRAW AMAZING BOOKSHELF. This selection of outstanding picture books that participated in the BolognaRagazzi Award this year will be showcased during the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Read more...