Anna Kang won the 2015 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for her debut picture book, You Are (Not) Small and has since published five more books in that series, as well as Christopher Award winner Eraser, and several others. Her picture books have sold a half-million copies worldwide. Kang, along with her illustrator-husband, Christopher Weyant, was the 2022 NJASL Author-Illustrator of the Year. She received her M.F.A. from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and has won several screenwriting awards and fellowships, including the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab and Film Independent Lab. Visit her at www.annakang.com.

Awards

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, The Christopher Award, CBC Teacher Favorites List, CBC/ILA Children’s Choices Reading List, Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist, Wisconsin State Reading Assoc. Picture This List, Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s Best-of-the-Year List, CCBC Choices Best-of-the-Year List, Bank Street College of Education Best Books of the Year List, ALA Notable Children’s Book, Parents’ Choice Awards – Silver Honor, NPR Best Books of the Year List.

3 Fun Facts

1. I love pickles of all kinds from all cultures.
2. I love animals, especially dogs, alpacas, otters, elephants, and manatees.
3. My rescue dog, Auggie, looks like a sea otter.