CHIERI UEGAKI is a second generation Japanese-Canadian and award-winning picture book author. Her first picture book was Suki's Kimono, followed by Rosie and Buttercup; then Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and was also winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Illustration, and Ojiichan's Gift, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Award winner. She lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
