Aining Wen
📖 Children's Books
🎄 Little Music Forest Series
🎨 Illustrations
🌟 Sketches
About & Contact Aining Wen
Email：493937147@qq.com
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🌟A picture book author, illustrator, and editor, she graduated from the Children’s Book Ilustration program at Cambridge School of Art. She has 9 years of experience as a picture book editor in Chinese publishing houses, giving her deep insight into the picture book market.Passionate about creating multi-media picture books, she integrates storytelling, illustration, music, and animation.
🌟Since 2014, she has published over 30 picture books, including, Fairy Song, A Rainy Afternoon, The Secret of Chinese Music, Music Forest and Cherry 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 Storyteling". Her works have been translated into Chinese, English, Spanish, Thai, French and Korean, and have been distributed globaly.
🌟Her accolades include being a finalist at the 2021 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Ilustrators Exhibition, the UK iJUNGLE International Illustration Award, the 2022 Apila International Picture Book Award in Spain, and the Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award. In 2021, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.
🌟Aining is known as a distinctive musical picture book creator, blending writing, painting, and composition into cohesive multi-sensoryexperiences. Each of her books features original music and animations, offering an innovative, interactive reading journey. She has also contributed significantly to children’s popular science education in symphony, Classical orchestral music, Traditional Chinese music、Folk music, Jazz, Latin music,and New Age music.
Picture Book Awards/Nominations 2020-2024
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as a Finalist for the 2021 Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
A Rainy Afternoon won the 2022 European iJUNGLE International Illustration Award.
A Rainy Afternoon was awarded the 2023 Apila International Picture Book Award.
A Rainy Afternoon was selected for the 2023 Hiiibrand International Picture Book Award.
A Rainy Afternoon was shortlisted for the 8th BIBF Ananas International Illustration Exhibition in 2023.
A Rainy Afternoon was included in Spain’s 2025 "Literatil" annual list of Most Popular Books.
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of Spain’s 2025 "Four Most Imaginative Children’s Books."
A Rainy Afternoon was awarded the 2025 Korean Art New Book Award.
A Rainy Afternoon received the 2025 Beijing BIBF International Illustration Award.
A Rainy Afternoon was listed "Muestra del Libro Infantil y Juvenil" selection of recommended outstanding picture books.
A Rainy Afternoon was selected for the "Master Illustrators of China" exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2025.
A Rainy Afternoon received the HiiiIllustration International Illustration Awards Excellence Award.
A Rainy Afternoon was included in the 2023 "Hundred Good Books List."
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as one of the best picture books of September 2023 by China News Service, Publishing, Radio, Film and Television.
A Rainy Afternoon was selected in the "Children’s Reading Promoter Joint Recommendation & Children’s Book Brand List."
A Rainy Afternoon was selected for the 2023 "New Book List of the Children’s Book Brand Alliance."
A Rainy Afternoon was recognized as an outstanding original children’s book in the fourth edition of "Children’s Reading China."
A Rainy Afternoon was included in the 2023 "Searchlight Children’s Book List."
A Rainy Afternoon was selected as a recommended book for the November 2023 issue of Publishing Business Weekly.
A Rainy Afternoon was recommended for the winter 2023 volume of the National Library’s "Four Seasons Children’s Reading" program.
A Rainy Afternoon was named 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 under the theme "Communication, Making Home Warmer."
A Rainy Afternoonwas named one of the "100 Outstanding Children’s Books" for the Children’s Reading Festival of the 32nd National Book Fair.
A Rainy Afternoon was included in the "Top 100 Children’s Books" of the 2023 China Children’s Book List.
A Rainy Afternoonwas awarded 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 National Book Fair Children’s Reading Festival in 2024.
A Rainy Afternoon was featured in the Spanish newspaper Juvenil Lazarillo and named its "Recommended Children’s Book of the Year."
A Rainy Afternoonwas selected as one of the "Top Ten Excellent Children’s Books" in Shenzhen, China.
Little Music Forest was selected for the "China Baidao Children’s Book Recommendation List" in January 2026.
Little Music Forest was selected for the "Beijing GAF International Illustration Art Festival" in December 2025.
Little Music Forest was selected for the “HaiNan, SanYa Illustration Art Prize" in December 2025.
Little Music Forest was included in the "Searchlight Children’s Book List" in June 2024.
Little Music Forest received a "Reading Recommendation" from Xinhua Wenxuan.
Little Music Forest was recommended as a book selection by China News Service, Publishing, Radio, Film and Television in June 2024.
Little Music Forest was included in the "Reading Together" reading list in June 2024.
Little Music Forest was selected for the "New Book List of the Children’s Book Brand Alliance."
Little Music Forest was included in the "New Start Children’s Book List" in July 2024.
Little Music Forest was selected for the "New Beijing News Children’s Book" joint recommendation list in August 2024.
Little Music Forest was listed in the "Editor-in-Chief Recommendation" for kindergarten reading in September 2024.
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 winner 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.
Music Forest was selected as one of the "Most Popular Original Children's Books".
Music Forest was selected for the 3rd 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 2020.
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 Song held an 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 as "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 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 for 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 for the top 100 children's books in China in 2021.
Secrets of Chinese Music was selected for the 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.
Cherry Tree was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Hiii Illustration Children's Picture Book Publishing Excellence Award.
Cherry Tree won the Bridgeman Studio Award International Illustration Competition nomination in the UK in 2020.
Cherry Tree won the 2023 "Mom's Choice for Chinese Original Picture Books" Top Ten Works Award.
Cherry Tree won the 2023 Bingxin Children's Book Festival Picture Book Award.
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 for the Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
In 2025, Aining was selected for the FAB Prize in the UK.
In 2024, Aining was selected as the youngest nominee for the "Master Illustrators of China" nomination in Bologna.