Cecilia Yung is executive art director and vice president at Penguin Books for Young Readers, where she oversees illustration and design for two imprints, G.P. Putnam's Sons and Nancy Paulsen Books.
The majority of Cecelia's work is on picture books, so that's where she'll focus. Picture books are a very particular art form. A picture books is usually 32 to 40 pages long, typically for 4 to 7 year olds--readers who are also learning about life. Books can hep us make sense of ourselves and our world. Pictures become mirrors. We can recognize ourselves and the characters and their situations. Pictures become windows when they portray new characters and new situations and are authentic and believable. And books can introduce new ideas.
Ceclia shares, "You have to see the story and feel the story." And she takes us through the beauty of the following books.
WONDER WALKERS by Micha Archer
IN A JAR by Deborah Marcero
THE CAT MAN OF ALEPPO by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-basha, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
NINA by Traci N. Todd, illustrated by Christian Robinson
"Powerful picture book illustration help the reader SEE the idea behind the story FEEL its mind-altering world-changing possibilities."
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