Circle Yuen is an Illustrator & Author based in the UK,
bringing a unique 'Own Voice' perspective to her work. Through tender, emotionally rich storytelling, her picture books explore themes of family, resilience, and belonging, deeply informed by her heritage.
AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Our Dance: Living Apart, Time Together
A young girl loves to dance, especially when Daddy and Mummy dance with her, but these dances don’t last long.
One evening Daddy leaves home and Mummy explains that they are separating and the family won’t be dancing together anymore. During the week the young girl lives with Mummy and on Saturdays she visits Daddy at a child contact centre. The family now have two new dances, each one different but both as valuable as the other.
A book about separation and those places that enable parent and child to connect and come together. Written in collaboration with the National Association of Child Contact Centres.
Our Dance is the first UK picture book to introduce child contact centres. It aims to raise awareness and reassure young readers that they are not alone - that resilience and hope can thrive, even in life's storms.
A Chat with Circle Yuen- Our Dance
Our Dance: Living Apart, Time Together is a heartfelt picture book inspired by my lived experience and community work with separated families.
From a child’s perspective, it gently introduces the idea of child contact centres. This story took ten years to grow into 32 pages...