Chieri Uegaki
BIO
Biography
Chieri Uegaki is a second-generation Japanese-Canadian author. Her picture books include Suki's Kimono; Rosie and Buttercup; Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award for New Writer and was also winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Illustration (by Qin Leng), and Ojiichan's Gift, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Award winner. Chieri's debut Young Adult novel, Emiko, inspired by Jane Austen's Emma, was published in June 2025 by Tundra Books. She lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
ADDRESS
City: ,
Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
GENRE
Children's and Young Adult
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Suki's Kimono
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Year
2003
Title
Rosie and Buttercup
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Year
2008
Title
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Year
2014
Title
Ojiichan's Gift
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Year
2019
Title
Emiko
Publisher
Tundra Books
Year
2025
LINKS
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