Award-winning author/illustrator of more than two dozen children's books, including:
"The Tsunami Quilt"
Sleeping Bear Press
Written by Anthony Fredericks, illustrated by Tammy Yee
Storytelling World Award (2008 Honor Award, Pre-Adolescent Listeners category) and one of The Bank Street College of Education's "Best Books of the Year" for 2007
"A is for Aloha"
Sleeping Bear Press
Written by Uilani Goldsberry, illustrated by Tammy Yee
Selected by the Hawaii Center for the Book to represent Hawaii at the 2006 National Book Festival
"Lullaby Moon"
Island Heritage Publishing
Written by Elaine Masters, illustrated by Tammy Yee
Ka Palapala Po'okela Award (2003, Excellence in Children's Books)
"Baby Honu's Incredible Journey"
Island Heritage Publishing
Written and illustrated by Tammy Yee
An island children's classic with more than 70,000 copies sold
Tammy works tirelessly on conservation artwork, recently illustrating the Hawaiian Monk Seal for NOAA's Monk Seal Recovery Program poster, the Irrawaddy River dolphin for Baiji.org, and continues to work with marine biologist and award-winning author Ron Hirschi to promote environmental education.
In addition, Tammy has given numerous presentations in schools and libraries across Hawaii. Her paintings are on display at the Mazza Museum in Findlay, Ohio and the Department of Minority Health at Harvard University.
Style / medium: watercolor, watersoluble pencils, colored pencils, digital
Work / products: children's picture books (fiction and non-fiction), kid's board books, conservation art and posters, multicultural portraits, endemic plant and animal illustration, creatures, forensic assessment tools for the Children's Advocacy Center, handbook on Caring for Central Lines in Children, web design and management.
| CONSERVATION ART: 
Irrawaddy River Dolphin, for Baiji.org
Educational coloring pages for the Land Trust Alliance
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| INTERIOR DESIGN: 
Acrylic painting, digitally reproduced as a mural for the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center
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| COMMERCIAL: 
Cookbook Illustrations and Design
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FEATURED PRESENTER / PANELIST AT THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCES:
- 2008 Children's Literature Hawaii Conference
- 2007 Honolulu Writer's Conference
- 2006 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Hawaii Conference
- 2005 SCBWI Hawaii Conference
- 2005 Read to Me Conference, Honolulu Hawaii
- 2000 Hawaii Island Writers Conference
OTHER
SCBWI-Hawaii member and webmaster. Strengths: science, nature, Hawaiiana and multicultural illustration. Also, health and education (Registered Nurse, specialty in pediatrics).
REPRESENTED BY:
ANDREA BROWN LITERARY AGENCY INC.
1076 Eagle Drive
Salinas, CA 93905
831-422-5925
See also: www.creativeshake.com/tammyyee
