Chih-yuan Chen has won numerous prestigious children’s book awards, including the Swedish Peter Pan Prize, Best Children's Book of the Year by the U.S. National Council of Teachers, the Bologna Ragazzi Award, the Golden Tripod Award for Book Illustration, and the Taiwan International Book Exhibition’s Golden Butterfly Award Gold Prize. His works include The Featherless Chicken, The Best Christmas Ever, The Snail That Counts Numbers, Whose Island Is This? and Everyone Pulling the Carrot, among others.