Qin Leng

Qin Leng is a Canada-based children's book illustrator and author. She also worked creating illustrations for children's television. Her picture book illustrations have won her a Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and Governor General's Award, among other honours.

Leng was born in Shanghai and has a twin sister. Their father is an artist. Leng later moved to France, then Montreal, where she graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. She published her first picture book in 2009. Over the Shop (2021) by JonArno Lawson, and At the Window (2025) by Hope Lim.

Books Leng illustrated have frequently appeared in year-end best of lists. In 2015, Shelf Awareness named Piper Green and the Fairy Tree one of the best children's books of the year. In 2021, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books named Over the Shop one of the year's best picture books. The following year, The Bulletin and Publishers Weekly named A Day for Sandcastles won of the year's best picture books.

Publications

Standalone books

Piper Green series