How This Book Got Red follows the story of Red, a red panda who can find books about pandas but never ones about red pandas. Accordingly, Red takes action to write her own book with the support of her friend, Gee. And that’s also how Margaret Chiu Greanias began the process of writing this book – to create a picturebook that features the “lesser” read about panda, the red panda, as a main character.

Greanias hopes readers of How This Book Got Red will feel empowered to write their own stories and to know that someone will relate to them or gain a new perspective from them. Also, readers can look at how Gee supports Red and works to be the same kind of friend. More deeply, Greanias hopes that young readers and their adults will consider how the lack of representation in books and popular culture affects real people.

This review is excerpted from an author interview that can be found on the Worlds of Words website.

This is a good book for primary students. I think that this is a good way to teach children how if they are different that's ok. You can be the one to show everyone that you are proud of who you are. This book talks about how a red panda notices that there are no books about him but there are many about regular pandas. so the red panda decides to write his own book.

This is a story about a red panda who, named Red, was living in a world where everything revolves around all pandas but red ones. Red decided he wanted to change this after a lot of frustration from nothing around his looking like her does. Red ends up writing a book about red pandas and all of the other red pandas thank and praise him for bringing awareness to the lack of diversion for pandas. I really enjoyed this book and think it would be a great book to read to primary students. I think it does a great job at showing what minority cultures may feel when coming to the US. This book it a great way for showing students why it is important to have something for everyone.

I think this book is good for primary and intermediate students. this book is about a red panda and a black and white panda realizing that the black and white pandas are the ones writing all the stories in their world. Then the red panda wants to write a story that talks about red pandas so that other red pandas can see themselves in a story.

This book is about a panda and a red panda who read a book about pandas. Upon finishing the book, Red, the red panda, notices there are no red pandas in the book. She is upset about not seeing herself in a book about pandas and goes on to write her own book about red pandas. This book would be good for either 1st grade in the way it demonstrates how we should read books from different backgrounds and cultures that are written by people from those cultures. It adds more diversity but also gives students the opportunity to see themselves within a picture book.