CYBÈLE YOUNG is an award-winning children's author and illustrator and an internationally renowned artist best known for her intricate paper sculpture. She is currently represented by galleries in New York, Calgary and Vancouver. She won the 2011 Governor General's Award for Illustration, Canada's most prestigious literary prize, for Ten Birds, the first book she both wrote and illustrated. Her next book A Few Blocks earned her IBBY Canada's Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award, and both books were a Kirkus Best Children's Book of 2011. Her latest work for kids, A Few Bites, has been shortlisted for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Picture Book Award.