Aram Kim

Agent: Erica Rand Silverman

Aram Kim is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and designer of children’s picture books.

By day, she is an Art Director at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, where she works with various illustrators to make beautiful picture books. When she is not working as an art director, Aram writes and illustrates her own stories about universal themes with a distinctive Korean flair.

Her published books are Cat on the Bus, Yoomi, Friends and Family series including No Kimchi for Me!, Let's Go to Taekwondo!, and Sunday Funday in Koreatown, and most recently, Tomorrow Is New Year's Day, which is about Seollal, a Korean celebration of the Lunar New Year.

Her books received several recognitions and accolades including Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Bank Street’s Best Children’s Books of the Year, and a Baker’s Dozen Award: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy by The Pennsylvania Center for the Book.

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