Oliver Chin

Hi! I'm the author of more than twenty children's picture books. I love creating stories that both kids and adults can get a kick out of (and enjoy countless times), and collaborating with amazing artists who bring these brave new worlds to life. Our newest title is an exciting illustrated anthology Awesome Asian Americans: 20 Stars Who Made America Amazing. Formatted like a graphic novel, it features 10 women and 10 men from a rainbow of backgrounds and occupations. Our new series The Asian Hall of Fame explores fantastic inventions from Asia. Each is the first English children's picture book on the subject. Dao is a cute red panda who brings the kids Emma and Ethan back in time... and then back to the future! Their first trip was The Discovery of Ramen. The sequel explores the creation of Fireworks and Gunpowder. The third adventure returns to Japan to investigate the inventions of Anime and Manga. A rainbow of animals inhabit the popular annual series The Tales from the Chinese Zodiac. This is the only series in English that features each of the animals of the Lunar New Year. We've completed twelve unique adventures and are revising each new edition with a bilingual translation in simplified Chinese. Now we have a limited edition box set that collects the whole series. I'm also the publisher of Immedium (www.immedium.com) which is a San Francisco publisher of children's books and contemporary art and culture. Our titles include the original tales of The Octonauts (www.octonauts.com), which is now a hit animated TV series worldwide and airs on the Disney Channel in the USA and Netflix. Other children's books feature themes range from trains, monsters (www.monsterisle.net), pirates, and inspirational martial arts heroine Julie Black Belt (www.julieblackbelt.com). My first books were a graphic novel on 9-11, and a sports commentary on Yao Ming and the Tao. I graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. My family lives in San Francisco, CA.