About the Author:Phuoc Thi Minh Tran is the first Vietnamese-American librarian in Minnesota. A respected storyteller and award-winning author, her first book
Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories won the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award, the
Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award, and the Moonbeam Children's Book Gold Medal Award. This and her other books,
My First Book of Vietnamese Words and
All About Vietnam, are all published by Tuttle. She was selected as a 2023 Blue Ribbon Author by Alphabet Forest/Minnesota State Fair and a 2024 Featured Author by the Anoka County Library for her book
All About Vietnam.
Nguyen Thi Hop & Nguyen Dong are the illustration team behind
My First Book of Vietnamese Words, Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories, All About Vietnam and
Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners. Since beginning their careers as professional artists in Vietnam in the 1960s, they have exhibited their work and collaborated on book illustrations for publishers throughout Asia, Europe and the US. They live in California.