Lian Cho is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is a Society of Illustrators Student Competition Finalist and received the Rhodes Family Award for Achievement in Illustration. She has created artwork for Sesame Workshop and the New Yorker, as well as for Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly. The Oboe Goes Boom Boom Boom is her first picture book. Lian Cho grew up in Taiwan and New Zealand, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Welcome, come in! You are invited to travel to homes around the world in this beautifully illustrated picture book about hospitality and acceptance, which features the word “welcome” from more than fourteen languages. Fans of Here We Are and The Wonderful Things You Will Bewill enjoy this timeless story about family, friendship, empathy, and welcoming others.

Welcome, friend. Welcome.

There are almost as many ways of making someone feel welcome as there are people on our planet. To welcome another is to give that person and yourself a chance at a new connection, a new friendship, and maybe even new eyes through which to view the world.

Journey around the globe as A Hundred Thousand Welcomes introduces the word for “welcome” in fourteen languages to illuminate a universal message of hope and acceptance. Mary Lee Donovan’s spare text is brought to life by Lian Cho’s boisterous, richly detailed illustrations.

BookSparks is working in conjunction with HarperCollins Children’s Books.