Author of
Our Lake (Kokila, 2025)
Angie Kang is a Chinese-American writer and illustrator living in the Bay Area. She has been published in The Believer, The Rumpus, Narrative, The Offing, Okay Donkey Mag, Wildness, and others. She won the Beth Lisa Feldman Prize in Children’s Literature and April Sinclair selected her as the winner of the 2021 Subnivean Fiction Award. She was previously a Design Fellow at Chronicle Books and is presently the Art Editor of Vestal Review. Angie recently graduated from the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program with a BFA in Illustration from RISD and a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University.
Angie Kang
Books by Angie
Our Lake (Kokila, March 2025)
A Caldecott Honor Book
Winner of the 2026 Charlotte Zolotow Award
Winner of the 2025 Dilys Evans Founder’s Award from the Society of Illustrators
Winner in the 2025 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition (Book Publishing Category)
A Center for the Study of Children’s Multicultural Literacy Best Book of 2025
An SCWBI Golden Kite Award 2025 Finalist for Picture Book Illustration
An NPR Books We Love 2025
A Horn Book Best Book of 2025
A Children’s Review Best Picture Book of 2025
A Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book of 2025
A School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2025
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2025
Two brothers return to a lake that they have visited many times before, but this time after losing their father. OUR LAKE movingly explores themes of healing after loss and the power of memory, reflection, and having a sibling to lean on through times of grief.
PRAISE
★ “Kang’s debut picture book is a quiet portrait of the ways in which grief takes us by surprise, and its glorious final celebratory splash offers a radiant reminder of how joy and connection can exist alongside sadness.” —The Horn Book, starred review
★ “A gentle and heartfelt exploration of grief, this book is a must-have addition to any library shelf.” —School Library Journal, starred review
★ “Kang debuts with a deeply felt story about siblings returning to a cherished place…this story about loss offers a vision of a place where ‘we are all together.’” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Navigating Night, written by Julie Leung, Illustrated by Angie Kang (Anne Schwartz Books, April 2026)
A girl guides her dad on his route delivering Chinese take-out food in this touching picture book that celebrates the unique bond between immigrant parents and their children.
PRAISE
★ “An impressively realistic, heartfelt exploration of family dynamics and illuminating understanding.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “A touching familial picture book….The creators highlight a distinct bond and sacrifices made across generations.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
★ “Leung’s child-centered text honors the unique bond between immigrant parents and their children. Kang’s dynamic mixed-media illustrations mirror the story’s emotionally resonant arc, moving from discomfort and tension to understanding and connection….An homage to love and resilience.” —The Horn Book, starred review
★ "This heartfelt story touchingly captures the experience of children of immigrants through the eyes of a young narrator who guides their father on nightly takeout deliveries. Lush illustrations in gouache, crayon, colored pencil, and pastel beautifully evoke the rainy setting and emotional arc of the story, which is further discussed in an illuminating illustrator’s note. Together, the realistic writing and expressive artwork create an insightful and moving portrayal of family, sacrifice, and connection within the immigrant experience."—Booklist, starred review
★ “[A] gentle book about sacrifice, determination and family. . .With personification and consonance, Leung’s deliberate, thoughtful narration tells a story that is intimate, beautifully woven and poetic. After one page, Kang’s drizzly-night illustrations will have you riveted with an incomparably skilled, atmospheric depiction of rain. Here, crayon, pastel and other smudgy, imprecise tools capture so much emotion with so few strokes and little detail. You’ll keep asking how in the world Kang created this art, and a note in the back matter may quell your curiosity, but not your astonishment. . .a beautiful example of a picture book that quietly tells universal truths through one specific story.”—BookPage, starred review