Aining Wen
Children's Books
Illustrations
Sketches
About & Contact Aining Wen
Email：493937147@qq.com
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🌟A picture book author, illustrator and editor, graduated from the Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art (UK). She is passionate about creating multi-media picture books by combining storytelling, illustration, composition, and animation.
🌟Since 2014, She has published more than 20 picture books including "Music Forest", "Fairy Song", "After Silence", "The Secret of Chinese Music", "Pumpkin Seed", "Cherry Tree", “An Old Piano", “A Rainy Afternoon", "Little Elephant and the Apple Tree", "Gift of Spring", "The Magician from the South Pole", "Song of the Night" and"Promise of the Ancient Tree" among others. She has also published illustration collection books such as "Drawing in Cambridge" and “How to make Picture Books?”. Furthermore, she translated the theoretical monograph "Creating Children's Picture Books: The Art of Visual Storytelling".
🌟Her works have been translated into Chinese, English, Spanish, Thai, French and Korean, and have been distributed globally.
Picture Book Awards/Nominations 2020-2024
A Rainy Afternoon was selected the Finallist of 2021 Bologna Children's Book Fair
A Rainy Afternoon won the 2022 European iJUNGLE International Illustration Award
A Rainy Afternoon was awarded by 2023 Apila International Picture Book Awards
A Rainy Afternoon was selected by 2023 Hiiibrand International Picture Book Award
A Rainy Afternoon was shortlisted for the final list of the 8th BIBF Pineapple International Illustration Exhibition in 2023
A Rainy Afternoon was selected into the 2023 "Hundred Good Books List"
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the best picture books by China News and Publishing Radio and Television News
A Rainy Afternoon was selected into the "Children's Reading Promoter Recommendation List & Children's Book Brand List"
A Rainy Afternoon was selected into the 2023 "New Book List of Children's Book Brand Alliance"
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the original good children's books in the fourth "Children's Reading China"
A Rainy Afternoon was selected into the 2023 "Searchlight Children's Book List"
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the recommended books for the "Publishing Business Weekly" in 2023
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as a recommended book for the winter volume of the National Library
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the top 100 best children's books of 2023 by the Cloverleaf Book Awards
A Rainy Afternoon was selected for the 2024 Beijing Family Education Recommendation Award
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the 100 outstanding children's books for the Children's Reading Festival
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the "Top 100 Children's Books" in the 2023 China Children's Book List
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as the "Best Children's Book Award" in the 2023 China Children's Book List
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the "100 Excellent Children's Books Recommended" at the 32nd National Book Fair Children's Reading Festival in 2024.
A Rainy Afternoon was featured in the Spanish newspaper Juvenil Lazarillo and was selected as the recommended children's book of the year
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the "Top Ten Excellent Children's Books" in Shenzhen, China
Littlle Music Forest was selected for the "Searchlight Children's Book List" in June 2024
Littlle Music Forest was selected "Reading Recommendation" by Xinhua Wenxuan
Littlle Music Forest was selected as a book recommendation by the China News and Publishing Radio and Television News
Littlle Music Forest was selected reading list for "Reading Together" in June 2024
Littlle Music Forest was selected by "New Book List of Children's Book Brand Alliance"
Littlle Music Forest was selected for the "New Start Children's Book List" in July 2024
Littlle Music Forest was selected as a joint booklist for "New Beijing News Children's Book" in August 2024
Littlle Music Forest was selected as a book list for kindergartens by the "Editor-in-Chief Recommendation"
Drawing in Cambridge was selected as one of the "Most Popular Art Design Books List" in 2023
Drawing in Cambridge was selected as the "New Book List of the Children's Book Brand Alliance" in 2023
Music Forest was selected as the finalist of the 2017 CCBF Golden Windmill International Youth Illustration Award
Music Forest was selected as one of the "Top Ten Children's Books" recommended by Chinese teachers in 2017
Music Forest was selected as one of the "Most Popular Original Children's Books" in 2017
Music Forest was selected Beijing Prince Gong's Mansion "Painting Life" Contemporary International Illustration Art Exhibition
Music Forest was selected as one of the "Top Ten Children's Books" by China Education Daily in 2017
Fairy Song won the 2020 "Little Cool Hat" International Picture Book Illustration Award
Fairy Song won the "Portuguese Picture Book Illustration Award" in 2020
Fairy Song won the 2020 "Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award"
Fairy Song serves as the main visual for the 2020 "Chen Bochui International Original Illustration Exhibition"
Fairy Songwas held Original Exhibition at the Kubrick Bookstore in Beijing
Fairy Song won the 2021 "Top Ten Children's Books Favored by Teachers in China Education Daily"
Secrets of Chinese Music won the "Mom's Choice for Chinese Original Children's Books"
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected the "Excellent Picture Books" for parents to read
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected as one of the top 30 books in the "Top Ten Children's Books of the Year" list for the 2021 Shenzhen Reading Month
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected as one of the "50 Most Recommended Children's Books of 2021" by China Publishing Media Business Daily
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected as one of the 100 books that teachers in China Education Daily like in 2021
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected as one of the top 30 best children's books
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected into the Beijing graded reading list
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected as a special program of the CCTV Music Channel for the 2021 Lantern Festival
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected as one of the top 30 "My Favorite Children's Books" in Shenzhen in 2022
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected for the 2023 "Close to Mother Tongue" fourth-grade book list
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected the top 100 children's books in China in 2021
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected seventh issue of "Xinhua Recommended Books"
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected as one of the "Top 30 My Favorite Children's Books of 2022" and other awards
An Old Piano was nominated for the Bridgeman Studio Award International Illustration Competition in the UK
An Old Piano was selected for the 2021 Golden Key International Picture Book Creation Competition
In 2021, Aining was selected into the Forbes U30 Under 30 List
In 2025, Aining was selected by Chinses Excellence in Children’s Illustration