LeUyen Pham is the illustrator of over fifty children's books, with titles including the best-selling "Freckleface Strawberry" series with Julianne Moore, God's Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as her own self-authored Big Sister, Little Sister. Born in Vietnam, LeUyen came to the United States at the end of the Vietnam War when she was only two. She studied illustration at the Art Center College of Design, and worked for a short period of time at Dreamworks Feature Animation as a layout artist, before turning to illustrate picture books full-time. She lives in San Francisco with her husband (who is an also an artist) and her two sons.