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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 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.

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

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All illustrations on KeithBooks.com are reproduced from The Witch’s Guide to Cooking with Children.

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