This is LeUyen (Pronounced Le Win) Pham:
Even though she is stunningly beautiful, she prefers this picture of herself instead:
LeUyen is not only lovely and incredibly talented, she’s also a wonderful person who is dedicated to diversity and WNDB’s mission. She’s created this beautiful piece which is featured on our wonderful WNDB Art Poster (you can get with a donation to our Indiegogo campaign), as well as on our new WNDB bookmarks, which you can also get if you donate to our campaign.
Isn’t it beautiful? LeUyen’s biography should read as follows: LeUyen Pham is the illustrator of over fifty children’s books, with titles including the best-selling “Freckleface Strawberry” series with Julianne Moore, God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as her own self-authored Big Sister, Little Sister. Etc, etc. But LeUyen would rather share with you this bio instead:
Isn’t she awesome? For more information, please check out her beautiful art at Leuyenpham.com. And stay tuned for more Artist Spotlights!
xin chào
I have just returned to live permanently in the USA after 47 years working in international schools. The past 10 years working at the United Nations International School of Hanoi, Vietnam.
I am missing Vietnam- the people, the food, the energy of the place. Reading about LeUyen and how she is an early riser reminded me of all my Vietnamese friends and neighbors who were out at 5 AM every day doing Tai Chi, or Zumba or ballroom dancing— something energetic and then, poof! Right at 7 AM off they went to work. Talk about energetic and workaholic- wow! The Vietnamese people are amazing and I miss that energy. I’ve only been in my new home since March 2019 – while busy moving into our house, I have tried to learn about our neighborhood. I discovered that LeUyen Pham is coming to my neighborhood as a visiting author at the Western Washington University. I have signed up to attend the Children’s Literature Conference as a retired teacher/ school counselor and I will be in the audience.
It would be such a great pleasure to meet LeUyen in person- please, if she has time, perhaps she can join my husband and me for a kopi luat? We brought some with us from Hanoi. Let us know if possible to meet her in person, privately. ?