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Paper Son

By Julie Leung
Illustrators Illustrated by Chris Sasaki Edition

Library edition with trade jacket added

Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint Schwartz & Wade ISBN

9781524771881

Awards and Honors - 2021 Asian/Pacific American Award - Picture Book

Paper Son

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Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was a boy named Wong Geng Yeo. He traveled across a vast ocean from China to America with only a suitcase and a few papers. Not papers for drawing—which he loved to do—but immigration papers to start a new life. Once in America, Tyrus seized every opportunity to make art, eventually enrolling at an art institute in Los Angeles. Working as a janitor at night, his mop twirled like a paintbrush in his hands. Eventually, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime—and using sparse brushstrokes and soft watercolors, Tyrus created the iconic backgrounds of Bambi.



Author’s note. Illustrator’s note. Photographs of Tyrus Wong. Full-color illustrations rendered digitally.
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