Peng Yi

Peng Yi, born in Shenyang, Liaoning, in 1958, is a Chinese children's literature author, translator, scholar, and photographer. He graduated from Fudan University with a degree in insect studies in the biology department and later earned a master's degree in education from Tokyo Gakugei University. He has worked as a film director and an editor at a children's publishing house, and is now a researcher at the Children's Culture Research Institute of Zhejiang Normal University. He is both a creative writer and a researcher, writing children's literature while also studying picture-book reading and theory. Five of his works are included in the collection, among them Snow Deer, The Big Tree House on the Tenth Floor, Our Little Rain Boots Ran Away (Run Away! Week Eight), Mountain Stream Singing, and Granny Spirit Bird. Drawing mainly on nature and children's everyday lives, his writing is light in imagination and clear in language, making it suitable for shared parent-child reading.