Hideko Takahashi

Hideko Takahashi is a children's book illustrator. She was born in Osaka, Japan and educated in at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. In 1990, she moved to Los Angeles to attend Otis College of Art and Design. Her work is included in Cooper Hewitt Museum.^[1] She did her a majority of schooling and education life in Kyoto, Japan, until later she moved to the U.S. in 1990 to attend Otis. After graduation, in 1994, she began to work as a freelance illustrator. Since then, she has made a professional career out of creating numerous illustrations for children's books, including: Beach Play, Good Night God Bless, Hot Dog on TV, Lull-a-bye Little One, The Ding Dong Clock, In My New Yellow Shirt, My Loose Tooth and Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems, Matthew's Truck and Princess Fun. Lynn Plourde, author of Snow Day, writes of Takahashi, "Hideko's illustrations have such kid-appeal and look deceptively simple (with basic colors and shapes), but they are filled with fun angles and perspectives and amazing details (cards look like real playing cards, and a braided rug is so textured you want to touch it)." In 2001, Takahashi moved to her adopted home of Seattle, which is now her favorite city.

Education

Graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.^[2]

Graduated from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 1994.

Area of Interests

Hideko Takahashi has professionally worked in illustrating for numerous children’s books, magazines, and educational materials, and her area of interests are in her specialty and among her favorite things which includes playful illustrations of children, dogs, and bugs. Active interests at home where she fondly recalls drawing and watching TV at the same time - which she still enjoys to this day.

Achievements

Certificate of Merit 38th Annual Illustration West, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles
Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year 2001 for In My New Yellow Shirt
Los Angeles Times Best Children’s Books, 2002 for Snow Day
Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2004, Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year 2005 and Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s Choices 2005 for Come to My Party and Other Shaped Poems
2009 Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Reading and Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s Choices 2008 for The Peace Bell

Client List

Candlewick Press
Carus Publishing Company
Childcraft
Dial (Penguin, USA)
G. P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin, USA)
Harcourt
Henry Holt and Company
Houghton Mifflin
Japan-America Society of the State of Washington
Kar-Ben Publishing
Lee & Low Books
MacMillan McGraw-Hill
Mudpuppy
New Harbinger Publications
Nick Jr. Magazine
Pig Toe Press
Random House
Rigby
Running Press
Scholastic
Sesame Street Magazine
Simon and Schuster
Sterling Publishing
Taiwan Wisdom Publishing

Selected books

Beach Play; by Marsha Hayles
Good Night, God Bless; by Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
Hot Dog on TV^[3][1]; by Karen T. Taha
Lull-a-bye Little One; Dianne Ochiltree
The Ding Dong Clock; by Carol H. Behrman
In My New Yellow Shirt; by Eileen Spinelli
My Loose Tooth; by Stephen Krensky
Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems; by Heidi Roemer

External links

References

^ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Hideko Takahashi". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
^ "Hideko Takahashi". SWAN Consortium. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
^ Taha, Karen T. (2005-05-19). Hotdog on TV. Hideko Takahashi. New York: Dial. ISBN 9780803729339.

[CH-1] Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Hideko Takahashi". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

[2] "Hideko Takahashi". SWAN Consortium. Retrieved 2024-06-07.

[3] Taha, Karen T. (2005-05-19). Hotdog on TV. Hideko Takahashi. New York: Dial. ISBN 9780803729339.

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