Bernard Eats Healthy: With Mom's Help (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540787583)

Connie Du grew up in Guangzhou, the capital city of southern China. She began studying English in China at the age of eight, and she has loved writing in English ever since. She was introduced to Western literature in the early 1980s by her middle-school classmates, and she later fell in love with French and American literature as a teenager and became a big fan of Jane Austen, an English novelist who lived during the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. After graduating from Guangdong University of Technology in 1993 with a major in electrical engineering, Du worked for many years in various business sectors: consumer goods, industrial manufacturing, real estate, financial investments, services, and government. She set up her own events-planning service company in 2005. She is interested in governmental affairs and diplomacy and worked as an executive assistant to the consul general of Singapore before following her heart by pursuing writing. Bernard Eats Healthy with Mom's Help is her new illustration book based on her published manuscript Let Us Eat Healthy!, and they follows Bernard Goes to Music School. All these titles are from her true-story series about her little boy, Bernard, who is growing up in a northern suburb of Toronto. Du's children's books are educational and informative, aiming to give children much important and useful information and knowledge to guide them and accompany them during their growing years. Du moved to Canada in 2008. She now lives with her family in Willowdale, Toronto, and loves the city as well as North America, where she has her full freedom and opportunity to express her ideas and thoughts and to write and publish her books. Besides writing, Du also has a passion for singing, dancing, swimming, and photography. She loves reading about people, science and nature, politics, governmental affairs and diplomacy, management and economics, cultures, travel and food, and medicines and health. She is also a fan of ballet, classic and contemporary music, classic movies and novels, and gardening.