I am Ali Khodaee, I was born in 1960 in Tehran. I studied at the Fine Arts Conservatory (Honarhaye Ziba).

I have illustrated many books.

Also,I have designed books as an author and illustrator, most of them are wordless and made by visual ideas.

National awards

Received an award, a plaque and a statue from the second press festival of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon)

Winner of the first prize, plaque and statue in the second textbook festival in 2006

 Received a plaque of appreciation from the Children’s Book Council, for illustrating stories for children with special needs 2011

Received an award for international achievements from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance 2011

Received an award, a plaque and a statue from the National Book Festival for Children and Adolescents for the ” Both this and that” book. 2012

Received an award, a plaque and a statue from the 15th Festival Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) for the “Both this and that” book 2013

Received a plaque, and selected by the Children’s Book Council for ” Both this and that” book 2013

15. Received an award, a plaque of appreciation and a statue from the sixteenth book festival of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) for the collection of books “Shahnameh Stories” 2015

Appreciated at the Sixth International Biennial of Illustration in Tehran 2013

Received an award, a plaque of appreciation and a statue from the 17th book festival of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon), for  “Are you a stork or a woodpecker?” 2015

Received a plaque and selected by the Children’s Book Council for the books: “Are you a stork or a woodpecker?” and “what? Spoon and Scissors” and the book “Razaneh” (from Shahnameh stories) 2015

Winner of the first prize, received an award and a plaque of appreciation in the field of children’s book illustration, in the 23rd Holy Quran Exhibition, 2016

Received a silver Medal from FLYING TURTLE AWARD and an award for the book “Are you a stork or a woodpecker?” 2016

Received an honorary diploma from the Festival of Compiled Fiction Books, Children’s Literature Studies Center, Shiraz University, 2016

Received an award, a plaque of appreciation and a statue from the 18th Book Festival of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) for the book “Do you make friends with numbers?” 2017

Received an award and a plaque of appreciation from the Cultural Goods Festival, 2017

Selected at the 34th Iran National Award for Book of The Year “D Like a Deer, E Like an Elephant” February 2017

Received an award for Designing Poster from the 9th Super Books Festival for Children and Young Adults 2018

Selected Book of the Shahid Ghanipour Award for the book “Look at This Way” 2018

Received a plaque and selected by Children’s Book Council for the book “Look at This Way” 2019

Received a plaque and selected by the Children’s Book Council for the book “My Numbers” 2020

Received an award and a plaque from the Roshd Book Festival for the book: “My Numbers” 2020

Received an award and a plaque from Shiraz Book Design Annual Award, as the best work of 2021

International Awards and Activities:

 Selected in BAIJ Exhibition Catalogue, Japan, 2000

Selected for the Belgrade Festival Catalogue in 2003, 2005 and 2009

Making the animation ” What like what” and elected at the 2004 Cairo Film Festival

In the list of children’s books with special needs, the book “Are you a stork or a woodpecker?” Was shortlisted by the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young people) in 2015. https://www.ibby.org/fileadmin/user_upload/IBBY_OB_2015_Small.pdf

Illustration of the book “Elephant’s Umbrella” for Tiny Owl Publishing Ltd 2018

The book “Look this way” published in English by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults 2020

 The book “Look this way” published in Turkey by Nar Publications 2021

 The book “Where is baby elephant?” published in the UK by Tiny Owl Publishing 2020

The book “Where is baby elephant” selected at the BookTrust institute in England 2021

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/our-recommendations/great-books guide /

Professional responsibilities:

Member of the jury of Arts and Security Festival, “Illustration Section” 2008

Member of the jury of the Visual Arts Festival, Young Art, “Illustration Section” 2009

Member of the jury of the first mourning of visual arts entitled “Red and black in the color of love “, “illustration section” 2015

Judge and lecturer in illustration workshop in the 22nd National Festival of Youth Visual Arts, 2017

Judge and lecturer in illustration workshop in the 23rd National Festival of Youth Visual Arts, 2017

Jury of the third competition and workshop on creating picture books, 2017

Member of the Graphic and Illustration Council of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults from December 2019 to December 2020

Member of the jury, the 12th Fajr Visual Arts Festival, 2020

Member of the jury, 13th Fajr Visual Arts Festival, 2021

Member of the jury, Textbook Cover Festival, 2021

Member of the jury, 14th Fajr Visual Arts Festival, 2022