Global Times: At 80, award winning illustrator Cai Gao still draws inspiration from childhood

Global Times: Cai Gao, China's first Hans Christian Andersen Award winner, blends tradition and childhood wonder across 50 years of art. Beijing, CHINA, May 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With silver hair, and a lifetime spent never leaving the world of childhood, 80-year-old Cai Gao, China's first illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award, has a memory and imagination that refuse to age. How good is Cai's memory? She can still summon, word for word, a Hunan folk lullaby her grandmother