Thomas King has written several highly acclaimed children\'s books.
She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her husband and their two cats..
She has illustrated almost twenty picture books, including Hug? , Going Up , Raindrops to Rainbow and Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao .
CHARLENE CHUA grew up in Singapore and immigrated to Canada as an adult.
Thomas lives in Guelph, Ontario with his family.
His most recent novel, Indians on Vacation , has recently been nominated for a Governor General\'s Literary Award.
King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent and was a Professor of English at the University of Guelph for many years, won a Governor General\'s Literary Award for his adult novel, The Back of the Turtle ; he won both the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize for The Inconvenient Indian .
A Coyote Solstice Tale (illustrated by Gary Clement) won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book and A Coyote Columbus Story (illustrated by Kent Monkman) was a Governor General\'s Literary Award finalist.
Thomas King has written several highly acclaimed children\'s books
