I hope my explorations as an illustrator and writer nourish a more empathic world.
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NEWS:
Fake Chinese Sounds, National Education Association, a Read Across American May 2025 selection, Revel in Your Heritage, Kirkus Review Best Middle Grade Books 2024, Booklist Editor’s Choice 2024 Graphic Novels, Michigan Association of School Libraries MiSELF Reading List 2024, Texas Library Association 2025 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List, Missouri Association of School Librarians, Denny O’Neill 2025 Graphic Novel List, Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025, finalist Jane Addams Children’s Book Award 2025, finalist Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Awards 2025.
First Morning Sun (by Aimee Reid, published by Simon and Schuster) selected for, American Library Association 2023 DIA list, Cooperative Children’s Book Center Selection 2023.
If I Were a Tree (by Andrea Zimmerman, published by Lee and Low) selected for, We Are Teachers, 60 Kindergarten Books to add to Your Collection. Bank Street College School of Education, Best Children’s Books of 2022, Junior Library Guild Gold.
United States Postal Service Hanukkah Forever Stamp 2020, First Day of Issue.
Camila and the Shadow of Dengue : 2, 2019 MarCom Awards, Platinum for animation and Gold for video; 2019 Hermes Awards, Platinum and 4 Golds.
XPRIZE, Current Futures, A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology, illustration for Mother Ocean by Vandana Singh
Hi’iaka Battles the Wind included on NBC NEWS Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Readling List.
Trees (by Verlie Hutchens, published by Simon and Schuster 2019) featured in New York Times Book Review article, Entrancing Poetry Picture Books, Kansas NEA Reading Circle List PrimaryTitle.
Feathers and Hair, What Animals Wear (by Jennifer Ward, published by Simon and Schuster 2017) receives a Silver Parent’s Choice Award, 2017 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids and Teens, 2018 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year 2018.
Illustrations for Shanghai Sukkah, by Heidi Hyde recognized with a Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award 2016.
Commission for the official artwork of the 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C.
2014, illustrations for the New York Times Best Selling Children’s Picture Book,
A Bucket of Blessings (Kabir Sehghal and Surishtha Sehghal, published by Simon and Schuster). Society of Illustrators Original Art Show 2014 and Original Art Traveling Show, Missouri State Teacher’s Association 2014 Reading List.
2014 Communication Arts Illustration Annual, illustrations for Twinkle Twinkle Small Hoku (Beachhouse Publishing)