Hu, Ying-Hwa

Personal

Born in Taiwan; married Cornelius Van Wright (an artist); children: one son, one daughter. Education: Attended art school.

Addresses

Home—New York, NY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Scholastic, Inc., 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

Career

Illustrator.

Awards, Honors

Selector's Choice Trade Book designation in the Field of Social Studies (with Cornelius Van Wright), for Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith.

Illustrator

Molly Mia Stewart, The Case of the Secret Santa, Bantam (New York, NY), 1990.

Laurence Schorsch, The Story of Jonah, Checkerboard Press (New York, NY), 1992.

Molly Mia Stewart, Jessica's Monster Nightmare, Bantam (New York, NY), 1993.

Molly Mia Stewart, Ellen Is Home Alone, Bantam (New York, NY), 1993.

Molly Mia Stewart, The Case of the Million-Dollar Diamonds, Bantam Skylark (New York, NY), 1993.

Molly Mia Stewart, Get the Teacher!, Bantam (New York, NY), 1994.

Jacqueline Wilson, The Suitcase Kid, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1997.

Jessie Haas, Jigsaw Pony, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2005.

WITH HUSBAND, CORNELIUS Van WRIGHT

Deborah Slier, editor, Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets, Checkerboard Press (New York, NY), 1991.

William Miller, Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree, Lee & Low (New York, NY), 1994.

Karen Chinn, Sam and the Lucky Money, Lee & Low (New York, NY), 1995.

Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Ginger Brown: Too Many Houses, Random House (New York, NY), 1996.

Dava Walker, Puzzles, foreword by William H. Schultz and Ruth A. Smullin, Lollipop Power (Durham, NC), 1996.

Monica Kulling, Vanished!: The Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Random House (New York, NY), 1996.

Ronald Kidd, Building Friends, Habitat for Humanity (Americus, GA), 1996.

Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Ginger Brown: The Nobody Boy, Random House (New York, NY), 1997.

Eleanora E. Tate, Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom, Delacorte Press (New York, NY), 1997.

Sook Nyul Choi, The Best Older Sister, Delacorte Press (New York, NY), 1997.

William Miller, A House by the River, Lee & Low (New York, NY), 1997.

Mary Hoffman, An Angel Just like Me, Dial Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 1997.

Joanne Rocklin, The Case of the Shrunken Allowance, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1998.

Belinda Rochelle, Jewels, Lodestar (New York, NY), 1998.

Margaret Holloway Tsubakiyama, Mei-Mei Loves the Morning, Albert Whitman (Morton Grove, IL), 1999.

Cynthia Leitich Smith, Jingle Dancer, Morrow Junior Books (New York, NY), 2000.

Garnet Jackson, George Washington: Our First President, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2000.

Laura Pegram, Daughter's Day Blues, Dial Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2000.

Linda Jacobs Altman, The Legend of Freedom Hill, Lee & Low (New York, NY), 2000.

Deborah da Costa, Snow in Jerusalem, Albert Whitman (Morton Grove, IL), 2001.

Kimberly Weinberger, Let's Read about … Christopher Columbus, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2001.

Courtney Baker, Let's Read about … Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholastic (New York, NY), 2001.

Nanette Van Wright Mellage, Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball's Greatest Home-Run Hitter, Troll (Mahwah, NJ), 2001.

Doreen Rappaport, We Are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002.

Meg Starr, Alicia's Happy Day, Star Bright Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Ruby Bridges and Grace Maccarone, Let's Read about … Ruby Bridges, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2003.

Sherry Shahan, Willie Covan Loved to Dance, Mondo Publishing (New York, NY), 2004.

Sonia Black, Jumping the Broom, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2004.

Angela Shelf Medearis, Singing for Dr. King, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2004.

Doreen Rappaport, In the Promised Land: Lives of Jewish Americans, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.

Lawrence Pringle, American Slave, American Hero: York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Calkins Creek Books (Honesdale, PA), 2005.

Sidelights

For Sidelights, please see entry on Cornelius Van Wright.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, October 15, 1994, Hazel Rochman, review of Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree, p. 432; May 15, 1997, Carolyn Phelan, review of A House by the River, p. 1580; November 1, 1997, Ilene Cooper, review of An Angel Just like Me, p. 482; February 15, 1998, Hazel Rochman, review of Jewels, p. 1020; February 15, 2000, Gillian Engberg, review of Daughter's Day Blues, p. 1120; May 15, 2000, Connie Fletcher, review of Jingle Dancer, p. 1750; October 15, 2001, Stephanie Zvirin, review of Snow in Jerusalem, p. 400.

Horn Book, January–February, 1995, Ellen Fader, review of Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree, p. 69; July–August, 1997, Roger Sutton, review of A House by the River, p. 445.

Publishers Weekly, August 29, 1994, review of Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree, p. 79; February 3, 1997, review of The Best Older Sister, p. 107; April 28, 1997, review of A House by the River, p. 74; December 22, 1997, review of Jewels, p. 59; April 5, 1999, review of Mei-Mei Loves the Morning, p. 240; May 15, 2000, review of Jingle Dancer, p. 117; November 5, 2001, review of Snow in Jerusalem, p. 68.

School Library Journal, August, 2000, Wendy Lukehart, review of The Legend of Freedom Hill, p. 144.

ONLINE

Cynthia Leitich Smith Web site,http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/ (December, 2001), Cynthia Leitich Smith, interview with Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu.