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KEITH MCGOWAN has worked most of his life as an educator. He helped run an elementary afterschool program and day camp, taught mathematics and science, volunteered for a year as a teacher in Haiti, developed curricula for a non-profit that helps students go to college, and tutored students who were unable to attend school full-time.

An avid traveler, he began writing his first children’s novel, The Witch’s Guide to Cooking with Children in Amritsar and Himachal Pradesh, India, staring at the Himalayan mountains, and continued working on it in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, and Vienna, Austria, where he now lives with his wife.

The Witch’s Guide to Cooking with Children was named a 2010 ALA Notable Children’s Recording and a 2011 Texas Bluebonnet book. It was also nominated by Hawai’i librarians for the 2012 Nēnē Award.

 

In 2010, Keith was awarded the Thurber House residency, given to one children’s book author each year in honor of American author and humorist James Thurber. He wrote part of his second children’s novel, The Witch’s Curse, during his residency there in the attic of James Thurber’s boyhood home.

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Drawn by fine artist and children’s book illustrator Yoko Tanaka. Copyright 2009 and 2013.