Otter’s New Neighbors

2018

25.0 × 25.5 cm

Otter’s new neighbors welcome him to his lakeside home with thoughtful gifts. But an unexpected knock raises a question: will this last visitor upset everything, or bring the neighborhood closer together?

Awards & selections

2016 · CAFA Graduation Design · First Prize
Tianhe International Innovation Design Competition · Gold Award
2017 · Golden Pinwheel Illustration Exhibition · Finalist
1st Little Cool Hat International Picture Book Award · Unpublished Professional Finalist
2018 · Clover · Top 100 Children’s Books
2018 · Little Golden Lion Cup · Picture Book of the Year
2018 · AIYUE Children’s Books 100
Jimu Parenting · Picture Book Oscar Award
Magic Children’s Book Club · Good Books in Mom’s Eyes · Selection
2022 · CCTV Children’s Puppet Picture Book Drama · Third Prize

English-language cover of Otter’s New Neighbors, published by Charlesbridge

Otter holds a lamp at the doorway of his wooden home

Animal neighbors bring gifts to Otter’s home

A bear and the other animal neighbors inside the wooden house

The neighbors sit together in the warmly lit wooden house

Otter on the jetty, looking across a quiet lake at dusk

Process

Otter’s New Neighbors · sketch and creative process · 3

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