Powerful Like a Dragon

Published in 2025 by Roaring Brook Press
Sumi Ink washes and digital color

Based on author Christopher Cheng’s true family story and with breathtaking, sweeping illustrations by Jacqueline Tam, Powerful Like a Dragon is an honest and heartfelt invitation into one child’s experience during the Imperial Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941.

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150,000 Trees

Forthcoming from Tilbury House, Summer 2026
Digital color pencil

The inspirational story of the program (Plant a Tree at Flight 93) that restored the strip-mined land surrounding the national memorial in the years following 9/11.

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Daydreaming

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Digital

A girl follows her daydream up an oak tree that seems to only get taller and taller…

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The Healer

Self
Sumi Ink, Graphite, Digital Collage

A short story about a dying king and a traveler who attempts to heal him.

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