YOKO TANAKA is an LA based gallery painter. She is showing her works in LA, Chicago, and Denver every year. When she graduated Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) in 2005, her agent Steven Malk contacted her, and that’s how she started working on children’s books.  She has received many awards and prizes. For details, please go to YokoTanaka.com/bio.htm.

See Yoko Tanaka’s paintings at YokoTanaka.com.

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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

CONNIE

By Yoko Tanaka

 

SOL

By Yoko Tanaka

 

COVER ILLUSTRATION

By Yoko Tanaka

Designed by April Ward

 

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Independent bookstores have named The Witch‘s Guide to Cooking with Children an “inspired recommendation for children.”

 

“The Witch’s Guide to Cooking With Children is a wonderful remake of the tale of Hansel and Gretel.” - Judith Lafitte, Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA.

 

“Fans of Lemony Snicket… should love Keith McGowan’s beguiling debut… Yoko Tanaka’s ghostly, Charles Addams-like drawings cast their own spell over a story that’s scary, funny, and subversive.”

- USA Today

 

 

“Humor that will delight and challenge the inquisitive youngster… gorgeous full-page illustrations.”- New Yorker (online Books Dept)

 

“You need to read this book.”

- BookPeople Indie Bookstore, Austin, TX.

 

“Nuanced, fascinating, and gratifyingly dark . . . Sol and Connie are appealing in their individuality and in their at times prickly sibling relationship.” - Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books