Satoshi Kitamura

Satoshi Kitamura is a Japanese children’s author and illustrator, born in Tokyo in 1956. Without formal art training, he began working in commercial art at 19 and moved to London in 1979, where he designed greeting cards and developed his career as an illustrator.

Kitamura’s first picture book, Angry Arthur, written by Hiawyn Oram, won the 1983 Mother Goose Award. He has written more than 20 books and illustrated many others, including When Sheep Cannot Sleep: The Counting Book, which was recognized as a New York Times Notable Book.