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Grace Wang王思淳（九韭）picture book illustrator · animals and nature

I illustrate stories about animals and nature.

I'm Grace Wang, a Taiwan-based illustrator who brings authors' and publishers' stories to life: picture books for readers 8 and up, chapter-book covers, animal nonfiction and children's magazines. I draw wildlife true to life, with real fur, posture and expression, in warm, detailed natural settings.

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A smiling forest sprite sits on a mushroom beside a huge red fox peeking through the grass

Selected work

Picture books, covers and magazine pages, in watercolour, coloured pencil and digital paint. 精選作品

Spread with a raccoon looking up as it splashes in a pond holding a leaf

Carried by the Wind, spread《風吹來的煩惱／風中的期待》內頁

A beluga whale rises toward a tiny figure drifting in green water

Beluga白鯨

Four pigeons lean down to look at a small sparrow, in coloured pencil

The sparrow and the pigeons麻雀與鴿子

Purple cover of A Tale of Time City, Volume 1, with two children falling through a cracked clock face

A Tale of Time City, Volume 1 cover《時空之城》上冊封面

Three bats and a red squirrel hang upside down from a branch in falling snow

Hanging around倒掛的朋友

A hawk sweeps past three small sparrows over the mountains

Carried by the Wind, spread《風吹來的煩惱／風中的期待》內頁

Two figures walk arm in arm through a violet forest under a crescent moon

Courage: Together勇氣：陪伴（典美插畫大賞入選）

Opening spread of a hermit crab feature with a shell-shaped notice board on the beach

A home for the hermit crab, Kang Hsuan Learning Magazine康軒學習雜誌〈寄居蟹的家〉

A small figure sits on a branch beneath a glowing magnolia blossom at night

Magnolia木蘭

Book cover of a boy facing a glowing gacha machine stall run by a rabbit-masked figure

Gacha Dream House, cover《扭蛋夢境屋》封面

A mother elephant and calf rest by a waterhole at sunset, beside a life-cycle diagram

The circle of life, Kang Hsuan Learning Magazine康軒學習雜誌〈生命循環〉

A girl with an orange umbrella splashes through puddles beside a small dog in the rain

Rainy day下雨天

A fox, a raccoon and frogs gather at the edge of a pond

Carried by the Wind

《風吹來的煩惱／風中的期待》雙封面繪本，聯經出版，2026

A dual-cover picture book about two characters longing to be understood while struggling to reveal their true feelings.

Written and illustrated by Grace Wang. Linking Publishing, Taiwan, 2026. 3rd Good Picture Book Sprout Award, Kaohsiung Public Library.

From sketch to page

Pencil studies of raccoons and sparrows spread across a table

Studies

Pencil studies of posture, fur and feathers before any page is planned.

Character sheet for the raccoon showing poses and facial expressions

Character

Expressions and poses, so the character stays true on every spread.

Finished spread with the raccoon looking up as it splashes in a pond holding a leaf

Final art

Print-ready spreads with room planned for the text.

Awards

  • 20243rd Good Picture Book Sprout Award, Kaohsiung Public Library, for Carried by the Wind 《風吹來的煩惱／風中的期待》
  • 2024IlloBoom! Illustration Competition, Top 50
  • 2024Dianmei Illustration Award (紙上躍躍然 典美插畫大賞), selected
  • 2023dpi Illustration Award, Bronze

Publishers I've worked with

  • Linking Publishing聯經
  • Wu-Nan五南
  • Kang Hsuan康軒
  • 好人出版
  • 采藝出版

Hello, I'm Grace.

I believe a good picture book belongs to no single age. I draw for the inner child, the feelings we had before we had words for them, and I keep my animals true to life: real fur, real posture, real expression. Cute, but never a cartoon.

“I draw what children feel but can't say yet.”

A girl with an orange umbrella splashes through puddles beside a small dog in the rain