One of a kind book full of emotions and important issues, the book takes its readers through a range of emotions from laughter to tears. The story is based on Tam, a young boy from Laos who goes through a lot of changes after his father dies and he is forced to find a job to help support his family. Tam's family sets him up with a job in the city working for a moon bear bile farm. Tam quickly learns what his job entails and wants so badly to stop the cruelty the moon bears face in the hands of a “doctor.”

Moon Bear was shortlisted for the Little Rebels Award 2014. The German edition of the book (Die Spur des Mondbären) won the German Environmental Prize for Children's Literature.

Author lives in Somerset, England.

Great Britain. Originally published in Great Britain by Oxford UP in 2013. Published in the United States by Simon & Shuster in 2015.