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Huy Voun Lee

Agent: Claire Morance

 

Huy Voun Lee arrived in New York City at the age of six as a Cambodian refugee. She spent countless hours in her childhood playing with the scrap papers her mom brought home from work. Huy has written and illustrated many books for children using her colorful cut paper style. Nowadays, she incorporates her collection of papers into her illustrations in Procreate. Huy studied at the School for Visual Arts and lives with her husband and mother on the Upper West Side.

Client List

Henry Holt
Highlights
Chronicle
Walker Books/ Bloomsbury USA
Abrams Appleseed
Blue Apple Books
Harper Collins
Scholastic
Little Brown
Lerner Publishing
Lee & Low
McGraw-Hill
Cricket
Spider
Ladybug
Bill Smith Studio
Benchmark
University of Minnesota Press
Christy Ottaviano Books

Awards / Honors

  • 2025 May/June Kids Indie Next List – Some of Us
  • 2025 Starred Reviews; Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal- Some of Us
  • 2022 CCBC Choices – Like a Dandelion
  • 2022 Bank Street Books List – Like a Dandelion
  • 2021 Kirkus Best Picture Books of 2021 About Crossing Borders – Like a Dandelion
  • 2021 Featured in the Eric Carle Museum “Asians, Everyday” Online Exhibition
  • 2013 Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Book of the Year – Red, White, and Boom!
  • 2013 Society of Illustrator’s Original Art Show – Red, White and Boom!
  • 2011 Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Book of the Year – Fire Drill

Reviews

Praise for Red, White, and Boom!

“Rich in texture and beautiful patterns, the intricate cut-paper collages depict a multicultural, multigenerational mosaic of people...”

School Library Journal
Praise for Honk Honk Goose

“A fun read-aloud grounded by great informational back matter, Sayre's latest is one of a few picture books that give a nod to father goose...Lee's cut-paper-collage illustrations wonderfully complement the text.”

Starred Review, Booklist
Praise for 1,2,3 Go!

“Lee's word and number primer has all the festive ebullience of a Chinese New Year's dragon. Each cream-colored, double-page spread serves as a backdrop for elegant, boldly-colored cut paper figures, a punchy number-verb comination and the appropriate Chinese characters.”

Publishers Weekly
Praise for In the Park

“Harmony is the effect Huy achieves in her playful collage cutouts of blooming park scenes. As in At the Beach and In the Snow, Huy fluidly weaves a lesson in drawing Chinese characters into a mother-son outing...Huy gracefully depicts the American melting pot in these double-spread pages framed with borders of soft colors that integrate silhouettes of elements from the text...”

Publishers Weekly

Featured Portfolio

Authored Books

Like a Dandelion (Harper Collins)
Origami Playhouse (Chronicle)
Exotic Fruits (Sterling Books)
1, 2, 3, Go! (Henry Holt)
In the Park (Henry Holt)
In the Leaves (Henry Holt)
In the Snow (Henry Holt)
At the Beach (Henry Holt)

Illustrated Books

Some of Us (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Rats to the Rescue (Lerner Publishing)
Red, White, and Boom (Bloomsbury/Walker Books)
The Magic Brush (Bloomsbury/Walker)
Fire Drill (Henry Holt)
Honk, Honk, Goose! (Henry Holt)
Cardinal and Sunflower (HarperCollins)

Videos

Like a Dandelion Book Trailer