Author Biography

Xiao Mao is a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association. He has published over 60 children’s books, including major works such as Xiao Mao’s Fairytales, The Courier Horse, Cee Cee and The Frog and the Boy. He received Soong Ching Ling Children’s Literature Award, Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award and so on. His works are appreciated by his readers because of its ‘unrestricted imagination and masculine humour infused with wisdom”. Soi Kim is an artist from Seoul, South Korea. She has always loved reading picture books, comics, as well as novels ever since childhood. After graduating from Seoul Women’s University, she continued to practice her drawings at an illustration academy. Subsequently she began working as an illustrator in 2012. Since then her picture books, children’s study books and an encyclopedia of the National Arboretum have been published.