The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2010
SUNNY SEKI is the author and illustrator of three picture books -- The Tale of the Lucky Cat, The Last Kappa of Old Japan, and Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll. He earned the 2007 NAPPA Award for The Tale of the Lucky Cat, a retelling of a Japanese folktale explaining the origin of the famous paw-waving cat. Sunny earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in photography in Japan and studied illustration at Pasadena Art Center College of Design. For the past 30 years he operated a portrait studio in Southern California, but now he writes and illustrates stories full time. He also leads a Japanese poetry senryu group, and recently published Gardeners Pioneer Story - the history of Japanese gardeners in California as reflected in the senryu poetry of gardeners themselves. Sunny lives in Los Angeles with his wife, nine children, and cat.
See Sunny, his wife and son as featured in this Disney Chanel "What a Life!" segment -- -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xeKF6Dejw
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