Hello!

You can find my books anywhere books are sold! That means you can buy them on Amazon, Target, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, or even ask your local bookshop if they have it.

You can also find handy links for each book on my website. You can find all my books here.

If you would like to buy signed copies, they are sometimes in stock at Books of Wonder!

I currently partner with BuyOlympia for prints and book bundles. You can find all available prints here.

Unfortunately, I am currently not open to illustrating independent or self published books due to my schedule.

However, if you work for a publisher and are interested in hiring me for a project, you can contact my agent Rebecca Sherman at rsherman@writershouse.com!

My name is pronounced LEE-ANN CHO (like cho-sen).
My name in Mandarin is An-Li (安立) so if you switch it around, it spells Lian! 

During my junior year at SVA I made my portfolio website which I put up on Women Who Draw, an open directory of female illustrators started by Julia Rothman and Wendy MacNaughton.

After a couple months, my portfolio site was discovered by art directors/editors at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins who invited me into their offices to show my portfolio.

After total silence for a few months, I was offered my first illustration job which was illustrating the cover and interior artwork for Erin Entrada Kelly's Lalani of the Distant Sea. They must have liked working with me because after I finished Lalani of the Distant Sea, I was offered the contract to illustrate The Oboe Goes Boom Boom Boom, my first picture book.

I like to use a mix of materials for each book but here are some of the common materials I use: 

• Holbein watercolors
• Holbein gouache
• Golden acrylics
• Prismacolor & Holbein color pencils
• Nichiban masking tape

For digital work I like to use Procreate on the iPad as well as Adobe Photoshop for editing.

If you want to hear me talk more about materials you can watch my sketchbook tour here.