Chris K. Soentpiet (born January 3, 1970, in Seoul) is a Korean American children's book illustrator and author.
Around Town, a picture book written and illustrated by Soentpiet, marked the artist's debut in 1994.
[citation needed] Soentpiet's research for the picture chapter book Peacebound Trains (author: Haemi Balgassi) took him back to his country of birth, South Korea, for the first time since his adoption in 1978.
[citation needed] Three of the books Soentpiet illustrated are Junior Library Guild selections: So Far from the Sea (1998),[2] Coolies (2001),[3] and Brothers (2007).
[7] In 1995, the Smithsonian named The Last Dragon by Susan Miho Nunes among the year's Notable Books for Children.