★Natural enlightenment picture book for children aged 3-6.
★Created together by Xiong Liang, International Hans Christian Andersen Award (Illustrator) finalist artist, and Hei Mi, winner of Golden Apple Award.
★Full of oriental natural philosophy, calling on human to live in harmony with nature.
★It introduces animals and colours, stimulates creativity and cultivates children's diverse aesthetics.
★This work uses the traditional art craft "woodcut print" creation.
★Cute and cuddly plateau animals and stories rooted in Chinese nature let you fall in love with nature in a second.
★ English translation is available.

Award：
★The Domestic gold Award of 2018 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition.
★The Gold Medal of Picture book category in the third ZCOOL Awards.
★2021 NAMI Concours ( Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours in South Korea ) Purple Island Award.
★Be selected as one of the TOP10 original picture books of 2019 in China.
★2020 Russia "Image of the Book" Original Picture book Award.

At the beginning of the world, animals had no patterns, neither did manul, which made it feel quite bored until it found a colored stone, and its heart began to beat strongly. So it started to look for colored stones for making pigments. And this was noticed by another animal that wanted manul to draw some patterns on it. However, manul didn't want to use its own pigments, so it just painted it randomly with some mud, then the world's first leopard came out, which attracted other animals to come to it, and their new images shocked the world. Later, manul started to think about the suitable patterns for itself, it painted itself with the most beautiful colors and patterns, But in the end, no one saw it, because its colored patterns were too full which made it look like a gray stone...However, when manul looked at the moonlight shining wilderness, its heart started beating again...

Xiong Liang/Author
Painter, writer, picture book poet, artist.
In 2014, 2018 and 2022, he was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in China area for three times. In 2018, he was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
In 2017, he won the Annual Prize of Picture Book of Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award ( CICLA ).
In 2020, it was nominated for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
In 2021, he won the 19th Baihua Literature Award for Prose.
Representative works: "Kitchen God", "Little Stone Lion", "Peking Opera Cat", "24 Solar Terms", "Walk with the Wind", etc.


Heimi/Author&Painter
A picture book artist and illustrator.
She has won the 2015 BIB Golden Apple Award( the third Chinese to win this award), The Domestic gold Award of 2018 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition, Golden Apple at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava, the Annual Prize of Picture Book of Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award and so on.
Representative works: "Braid", "A Manul Who Wants Everything".