Hsu Meiyi is a maven of creative invention. She is a songwriter, an illustrator, DIY expert, columnist, and professional mother. Her 1998 picture book, Diary Exchanges, done in collaboration with Chang Miao-Ju, was so successful in Taiwan that the two continued it for eighteen subsequent volumes. Mama Style is a collection of Hsu’s syndicated column “Toys for the Home,” which appears in Parenting magazine.