Nyeu

Nyeu resolved her "questionable bunny values" her words and continued to illustrate and write the book.

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Nyeu carried her story ideas around on a slip of paper that she occasionally shared with friends.

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The visuals are incredibly clean and graphic; Nyeu refers to her style as "psychedelic pastural".

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"The see of this book was the visual of bunnies hanging on a clothesline," says Nyeu.

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This year, the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award went to Tao Nyeu for Bunny Days (Penguin), and the New Writer Award was given to Laurel Croza for I Know Here (Groundwood Books).

The New York Public Library: Bunnies in Washing Machines and Children Moving to New Places, This is What Award-Winning Children's Books are Made Of The New York Public Library 2011