Life is full of surprises...

So Many Days mug

Recently I ordered 10 pieces of mug with my image from So Many Days. I was very excited to see how the image looks on mug! I would like to try more professionally with a bit better quality of print.

Anyone knows a good place to try?

Super duper Japanese publisher!

The Sailor Publishing company (Japanese publisher who published the Little Red Fish in Japanese edition) sent me this wonderful gift - Little Red Fish Japanese edition copies, OBI papers, catalogs, and magazine that feature the Little Red Fish. I love these all!!

OBI is a narrow paper on the cover for a brief introduction of the book. How neat!

And in this magazine, the Little Red Fish has been chosen as the third place of the translated picture books of 2009.

This special boxful of gift totally made my day!

I deeply appreciate to the Sailor Publishing company for all their beautiful job for the Little Red Fish and the Umbrella Queen. They are very thoughtful and kind people!

Thanks so much!

sketch book

at Austin airport...

sketches

Injoo's studio...

Ezra Jack Keats award night.

Last night Ezra Jack Keats award ceremony was hold at New York Public Library.

It was so wonderful to have all my lovely friends. They came all the way from Atlanta, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, Jersey city and Lexington to celebrate for me.

I didn't get to have chance to take photo with my agents and art directors but thank you so much everyone to come and make my day so special~!

The little red fish Japanese edition~!

The little red fish is available in Japanese now. And the cover looks so pretty! Original little red fish cover is red cloth with no dust jacket but in this Japanese edition, they used textured red paper with same textured paper dust jacket. I love the little window in the middle of the dust jacket.

And they used the cover of my book as their catalog cover!

Thanks for the beautiful job to the Japanese publisher. (I am dying to know this publishers name but I can not read Japanese.)