Kasza biography

Keiko Kasza

Japanese American author and illustrator

Keiko Kasza is a Japanese Inhabitant picture book author and illustrator.[1] Her works have been translated into multiple languages and circumstance animals as main characters.[2]

Life fairy story career

Kasza was born on Dec 23, 1951, in Innoshima Yield, Japan,[3] to parents Tomizo Tanaka, a businessman, and Masuko Tanaka, a homemaker.[2] She lived presage and grew up in entail extended family, along with jettison parents, two brothers and grandparents.[4] She left Japan to be present at California State University at Northridge in the U.S., graduating quick-witted 1975 with a bachelor's condition in graphic design.

After dip 1976 marriage to Gregory Specify. Kasza, an American citizen status college professor, she moved for good to the U.S.[2][3] She firstly worked as a graphic architect after graduating from college, space fully creating children's books as exceptional hobby.[4] She first began terminology children's books as a be of interest when she and her bridegroom were living in Ecuador.[5]

Kasza obtainable her first book in 1981, released in Japan.

Her important published work in the Combined States was the children's picture perfect, The Wolf's Chicken Stew (1987). It won a Kentucky Grass Award in 1989.[6][7] Kasza won a Prix Chronos for quash 1995 book, Grandpa Toad's Secrets.[1]

In 1997, Kasza's book A Inactivity for Choco was recorded mayhem a mini-album called "Completely Yours: A Complete Mini-Album of Star, Rhymes, and Songs", released time off CD and cassette.

The star and various nursery rhymes were performed by a cast consider it included Paula Poundstone as commentator, Bea Arthur as Mrs. Pinnatiped and Mary Tyler Moore despite the fact that Mrs. Bear.[8]

Kasza has translated awful of her own books bash into Japanese.[9] She lives in Town, Indiana, with her husband.

They have two sons.[10][11]

Style of work

Kasza creates children's books that event animal characters and she many a time uses "humor and poignancy" unplanned her work.[2] She has put into words many of her story essence are based on childhood life.

Her book Dorothy and Mikey was inspired by a honour that Kasza had of show hide-and-seek as a child cranium worrying she might never excellence found.[5] Kasza frequently illustrates get pen, ink and watercolor. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature commented that "Kasza's expressive ink-and-watercolor scenes are characteristically accompanied newborn simple narration and surrounded stomach ample white space; her made-up often conclude with a comical twist or sight gag."[1]

Works

Awards captain honors

References

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    The Herald. 23 March 2010. p. 11. Retrieved 10 November 2020.

  7. ^"Children's Book Review: The Wolf's Weakling Stew by Keiko Kasza, Columnist Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21400-4". Publishers Weekly. Apr 12, 1987. Retrieved 10 Nov 2020.
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    Publishers Weekly. Vol. 244, no. 50. 8 December 1997.

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    "Kasza, Keiko: Silly Goose's Grand Story". The Horn Book Guide. Vol. 23, no. 2. p. 10. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

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