Qin Leng

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Qin Leng is an illustrated based in Toronto, Canada. She has illustrated numerous picture books, magazines and book covers with publishers from around the world. Her recent picture books include the national bestseller Sharon, Lois and Bram’s Skinnamarink, One Elephant Went Out to Play and Peanut Butter and Jelly written by Sharon, Lois and Bram (story by Randi Hampson); and Trèfle (Clover) by Nadine Roberts, which won the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young Persons Literature – Illustrated Books. Other titles include her author/illustrator debut, I Am Small; Over the Shop and A Day for Sandcastles written by JonArno Lawson; Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson; Family Is a Family Is a Family written by Sara O’Leary; and Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and received the APALA Award for best picture book.