GERALDINE PU AND HER LUNCH BOX, TOO!

Geraldine Pu’s favorite part of school is lunch. She loves her lunch box, which she calls Biandang. She can’t wait to see what her grandmother, Amah, has packed inside it each day. Then one day, Geraldine gets stinky tofu...and an unexpected surprise. What will she do?

Meet spunky, funny, and friendly Geraldine Pu as she takes on a bully and makes a new friend in this first book in a new Level 3 Ready-to-Read Graphics series!

Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

Available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book:

Written and Illustrated
by Maggie P. Chang

Simon & Schuster, June 2021
Ready-to-Read Graphics Books

Edited by Beth Barton and Sally Hasokawa, lead design by Kayla Wasil

✭ A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, 2021
✭ Cybils 2021 Awards Finalist
✭ The Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award Winner for Elementary, 2021
✭ Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year selection, 2022 edition

Educators Guide


We Need Diverse Books interview

The Tiny Activist interview

Praise for Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box, Too!

“The highest form of praise: My 4-year-old son wanted to read this book again two nights in a row. We went camping on the third night, and he was allowed to pick one book to bring, and he picked this one. He really liked learning about all of the different foods, and he liked discussing bullying.”
— Unleashing Readers

”Young children need to learn about the effects of microaggressions and debut author/illustrator Chang’s Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box, Too! is the perfect story to help kids understand how their comments can be hurtful to their peers. Chang’s comic panels are bright and detailed with a large text to make it easy to read.”
— Beagles and Books

“This debut graphic novel for early readers is a must-have for your library or classroom. Kids will love Geraldine just as much as I did.”
— Erin Entrada Kelly, Newberry award-winning author of Hello Universe

“I like this story because it’s something that inevitably plays out in lunchrooms everywhere, but Geraldine understands that it’s not on her to not eat the foods she loves … Something else I love about the book is the bao recipe in the back! I actually made it and they were delicious!”
— Tiny Activist