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Cai Gao (illustrator)

Cai Gao is a Chinese children’s book illustrator, author and editor. She was the first Chinese illustrator to win the Golden Apple Award at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava and has twice been shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Awards and honours
• 2026 - winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award • 2024 - shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award • 2022 - Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award • 1993 - received the Golden Apple Award at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava for “Bao’er, The Fox Spirit in the Abandoned Garden” ==Books (as author-illustrator)==
Books (as author-illustrator)
Cai has also illustrated and edited numerous other picture books. • 2024 - What Would It Be Like Without? (不能没有) • 2023 - The Magic Leaf • 2021 - The Land of Peach Blossom (桃花源的故事) • 2020 - Once When I Was Little (6 vols) • 2019 - Bao Er, the Fox Spirit in the Abandoned Garden (宝儿) • 2018 - Each Seedling Has its Own Rainfall • 2017 - Tan Hou and the Double Sixth Festival (晒龙袍的六月六) - English, tr. Helen Wang (Balestier Press, 2017, ISBN 9781911221036) • 2016 - How I Came to Be Me (出生的故事) - English, translator not named (Starfish Bay Publishing, Australia, 2017, ISBN 978-1760361051) • 2016 - What Can You See in the Moon • 2015 - Three Monks • 2013 - Blazing City (火城) == References ==
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