Jeff Chiba Stearns is an award winning animation and documentary filmmaker and author of Japanese and European descent. Chiba Stearns was born in Kelona, BC and graduated from Emily Carr University in Vancouver with a degree in Film Animation. He founded Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., an animation studio and publishing company.
Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)
Mixed Critters: An ABC Book
Vancouver: Meditating Bunny Studio, 2018.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Inspired by Jeff Chiba Stearns’ own multiracial background, Mixed Critters is a children’s book that serves as an introduction to multiethnic identity through the blending of various animals from A to Z.
Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)
Nori and His Delicious Dreams
Vancouver: Meditating Bunny Studio, 2020.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Nori is a Japanese boy with an incredible appetite who dreams of sleeping on beds made of delectable dishes. Nori and His Delicious Dreams is an exploration of culinary delights from around the globe that is sure to excite the appetites of children through colourful illustrations and playful rhymes.
Fiction (Juvenile, Graphic novel)
Ojichan’s Dragon
Vancouver: Meditating Bunny Studio, 2026.
forthcoming fall 2026
Fiction (Juvenile, Graphic novel)
On Being Yukio
Co-created by Lillian Michiko Blakey.
Vancouver: Meditating Bunny Studio, 2021.
PZ7.1.S74 O52 2020
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
In a rare collaboration between two of Canada’s most notable Japanese Canadian artists, Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey, comes an intergenerational story on family history and cultural identity.
Non-fiction (Juvenile, Graphic novel)
Tomey: The Unyielding Spirit of Tomekichi Homma.
Illustrated by Ally Adachi.
National Coalition of Canadians Against Anti-Asian Racism, 2025.
Links
Publisher Meditating Bunny Studio
Publisher National Coalition of Canadians Against Anti-Asian Racism
Website for On Being Yukiko