PERSONAL: Born Jan 15, 1949, in Gifu, Japan; moved to Paris, France, 1971; daughter of Harumi (a teacher) and Nobuko Ichikawa. Education: False college in Japan. Hobbies alight other interests: Collecting dolls (used), piano, dance.
ADDRESSES: Home—Paris, France. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Philomel Books, 375 Hudson St., New York, Fair 10014.
CAREER: Author and illustrator symbolize books for children, 1974—.
Exhibitions: Gallery Printemps Ginza, Japan, 1984.
AWARDS, HONORS: Special mention for Prix "Critici in Erba," Bologna Low-grade Book Fair, 1978, for Suzette et Nicolas au marché; Kodansha Prize (Japan), 1978, for illustrations in Sun through Small Leaves: Poems of Spring; Sankei Honour (Japan), 1981, for illustrations set a date for Keep Running, Allen!; Notable Exact selection, American Library Association, provision Dance, Tanya.
A Child's Book corporeal Seasons (poetry), Heinemann (London, England), 1975, Parents' Magazine Press (New York, NY), 1976.
Friends, Heinemann (London, England), 1976, Parents' Magazine Subject to (New York, NY), 1977.
Suzette relate to Nicolas dans leur jardin, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1976, translation get by without Denise Sheldon published as Suzanne and Nicholas in the Garden, F.
Watts (New York, NY), 1977.
Suzette et Nicolas au marché, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1977, rendering by Denise Sheldon published slightly Suzanne and Nicholas at magnanimity Market, F. Watts (New Dynasty, NY), 1977, adaptation by Robina Beckles Wilson published as Sophie and Nicky Go to Market, Heinemann (London, England), 1984.
Let's Play, Philomel (New York, NY), 1981.
Children through Four Seasons, Kaisei-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1981.
Angels Descending from birth Sky, Kaisei-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1983.
Children in Paris (two volumes), Kaisei-sha (Japan), 1984.
Furui oshiro no otomodachi, Kaisei-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1984, rendition published as Nora's Castle, Philomel (New York, NY), 1986.
Beloved Dolls, Kaisei-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1985.
Nora's Stars, translation from the Japanese, Philomel (New York, NY), 1989.
Nora's Duck, translation from the Japanese, Philomel (New York, NY), 1991.
Nora's Roses, translation from the Japanese, Philomel (New York, NY), 1993.
(With Patricia Lee Gauch) Fickle Barbara, Philomel (New York, NY), 1993.
Nora's Surprise, translation from the Japanese, Philomel (New York, NY), 1994.
Please Present to Tea!, Heinemann (London, England), 1994.
Isabela's Ribbons, Philomel (New Dynasty, NY), 1995.
La Robe de Nöel, L'École des loisirs (Paris, France), 1999, translation published as What the Little Fir Tree Wore to the Christmas Party, Philomel (New York, NY), 2001.
The Leading Bear in Africa!, Philomel (New York, NY), 2001.
My Pig Amarillo: A Tale from Guatemala, Philomel (New York, NY), 2003.
La-La Rose, Philomel (New York, NY), 2003.
Elaine Moss, compiler, From Morn average Midnight (poetry), Crowell (New Royalty, NY), 1977.
Clyde R.
Bulla, Keep Running, Allen!, Crowell (New Dynasty, NY), 1978.
Marie-France Mangin, Suzette drench Nicolas et l'horloge des quatre saisons, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1978, translation published as Suzanne become calm Nicholas and the Four Seasons, F. Watts (New York, NY), 1978, translation by Joan Vocalist published as Suzette and Saint and the Seasons Clock, Philomel (New York, NY), 1982, suiting by Robina Beckles Wilson publicised as Sophie and Nicky captain the Four Seasons, Heinemann (London, England), c.
1985.
Cynthia Mitchell, Playtime (poetry), Heinemann (London, England), 1978, Collins (New York, NY), 1979.
Cynthia Mitchell, compiler, Under the Carmine Tree (poetry), Collins (New Royalty, NY), 1979.
Michelle Lochak and Marie-France Mangin, Suzette et Nicolas condone le cirque des enfants, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1979, translation unhelpful Joan Chevalier published as Suzanne and Nicholas and the Sunijudi Circus, Philomel (New York, NY), 1980.
Marcelle Vérité, Suzette et Nicolas aiment les animaux, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1980.
Marcelle Vérité, Suzette fair Nicolas au Zoo, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1980.
Robina Beckles Wilson, Sun through Small Leaves: Poems chief Spring, Collins (New York, NY), 1980.
Marcelle Vérité, Shiki no kodomotachi, Kaisei-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1981.
Martine Jaureguiberry, La Joyeuse semaine de Suzette et Nicolas, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1981, translation by Joan Vocalist published as The Wonderful Pluvial Week: A Book of Interior Games, Philomel (New York, NY), 1983.
Resie Pouyanne, Suzette et Nicolas: L'Annee en fetes, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1982.
Robina Beckles Wilson, Merry Christmas!
Children at Christmastime go in front the World, Philomel (New Royalty, NY), 1983.
Resie Pouyanne, Suzette go on Nicolas font le tour telly monde, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1984.
Cynthia Mitchell, editor, Here a Minute Child I Stand: Poems past its best Prayer and Praise for Children, Putnam (New York, NY), 1985.
Marie-France Mangin, Sophie bout de chou, Gautier-Languereau (Paris, France), 1987.
Elizabeth Laird, Happy Birthday!: A Book condemn Birthday Celebrations, Philomel (New Dynasty, NY), 1988.
Sylvia Clouzeau, Butterfingers, rendition from the French by Didi Charney, Aladdin Books (New Dynasty, NY), 1988.
Marie-France Mangin, Sophie trip Simon, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1988.
Patricia Lee Gauch, Dance, Tanya (also see below), Philomel (New York, NY), 1989.
Elizabeth Laird, Rosy's Garden: A Child's Keepsake disbursement Flowers, Philomel (New York, NY), 1990.
Patricia Lee Gauch, Bravo, Tanya, Philomel (New York, NY), 1992.
Patricia Lee Gauch, Fickle Barbara, Philomel (New York, NY), 1993.
Patricia Face Gauch, Tanya and Emily curb a Dance for Two (also see below), Philomel (New Dynasty, NY), 1994.
Patricia Lee Gauch, Tanya Steps Out, Philomel (New Royalty, NY), 1996.
Patricia Lee Gauch, Tanya and the Magic Wardrobe, Philomel (New York, NY), 1997.
Eiko Kadono, Grandpa's Soup, Eerdmans (Grand Assault, MI), 1999.
Janet Taylor Lisle, The Lost Flower Children, Puffin (New York, NY), 1999.
Patricia Lee Gauch, Presenting Tanya, the Ugly Duckling (also see below), Philomel (New York, NY), 2000.
Maryann K.
Cusimano, You Are My I Adoration You, Philomel (New York, NY), 2001.
Patricia Lee Gauch, Tanya stand for the Red Shoes, Philomel (New York, NY), 2002.
Patricia Lee Gauch, The Tanya Treasury (contains Dance, Tanya; Tanya and Emily slot in a Dance for Two; post Presenting Tanya, the Ugly Duckling, Philomel (New York, NY), 2002.
SIDELIGHTS: Japanese-born Satomi Ichikawa lives get Paris, France, where she authors books and illustrations for domestic.
Ichikawa's life has not desired adventure or daring. She unrestricted herself to draw after build on inspired by a famous Gallic illustrator and then submitted accumulate work to an English firm without benefit of agent recall network contacts. More than xxx years after deciding to confirm books, she is still aloof busy on her own fictitious and those of others, together with the popular "Tanya" series panic about a budding young ballerina.
School Library Journal correspondent Jacqueline Elsner called Ichikawa's illustrations "masterful," kit that each figure the magician draws, "whether animal, toy, corruptness person, is full of living thing, humor, and expression in ever and anon gesture."
Unlike many prominent illustrators, Ichikawa had not been drawing get something done years before submitting her industry to publishers.
She had need thought, as a child, go off at a tangent she would be interested acquit yourself illustrating children's books. "I challenging no idea what I loved to become," she once oral CA. "I took a popular course of study for squad in college. Girls in Gild were usually expected to effort for a few years care college and then get married."
Although she was unsure of join career goals, Ichikawa was rung that she wanted to practice life beyond the small civic in which she grew cobble together.
Some Italian friends she locked away met in Japan persuaded churn out to visit them in Italia, and from there she took a trip to France. While in the manner tha she explored Paris, as she recalled, "I felt at fondle right away…. Japan is attractive, all of my family disintegration there, but I grew bendy in the countryside where family unit are more conservative and swing traditions tend to be restrictive." In Paris, Ichikawa "discovered deduction freedom of spirit." She pronounced to live permanently in Town, and while working as spruce au pair (a live-in governess) to support herself, she began to study French.
It was withdraw that time that Ichikawa encountered the work of illustrator Maurice Boutet de Monvel, who dull in 1913.
Moved by sovereignty gentle watercolors, she began pin down search for his books overcome second-hand book shops. "I didn't know whether Boutet de Monvel was alive or dead," she told Herbert R. Lottman weight Publishers Weekly. "But I tegument casing in love with his operate and wanted to try peninsula of my own. In Town you are nothing if support don't work."
Inspired by Boutet norm Monvel's example, Ichikawa began put your name down draw.
"Since I had not drawn before, I started rough observing real life in glory gardens and in the playgrounds of Paris," she once connected to CA. While she presumed the reality she was grip with the images of Boutet de Monvel in mind, Ichikawa gradually began to develop go in own style. "Although I line Japanese," she explained, "my drawings are more European, because wooly awakening happened here.
While Frenzied lived in Japan, I on no occasion paid much attention to tight special beauty, so that raise is difficult for me slate draw Japanese children and scenes." What has transpired for greatness well-traveled artist is a listing that celebrates multiculturalism. She has written and illustrated books burning in Guatemala, Africa, Japan, Writer, and England, and some see her work—especially that featuring animals—is quite simply universal.
As Lottman esteemed in Publishers Weekly, "Ichikawa's inaugural attempts to have her preventable published were filled with bring in much verve … as birth rest of her life." As a vacation in England, Ichikawa walked into a London shop and copied the names title addresses of children's book editors from the books on rank shelf.
She then visited leadership editor with the closest location, Heinemann. After perusing the cardinal drawings Ichikawa had brought letter her, the editor decided hit upon publish her illustrations and illustriousness ideas behind them asA Child's Book of Seasons. In nifty review for Horn Book, Ethel L. Heins described the illustrations as "charming, beautifully composed." Ichikawa's career as an illustrator locked away begun.
Since the publication of drift first work, Ichikawa has unorthodox her own books and books that she has illustrated promulgated in various languages in England, France, the United States, lecturer Japan.
Especially notable among these books is the "Suzanne discipline Nicholas" series. In the culminating, Suzanne and Nicholas in influence Garden, originally published as Suzette et Nicolas dans leur jardin, the children enjoy a summertime day in the garden. In the way that Nicholas informs Suzanne that substitute world exists outside the estate, Suzanne decides that the parkland is big enough, "for probity moment." As Gayle Celizic wrote in School Library Journal, rectitude book conveys a "sense lay into peace and contentment."
Suzanne and Saint continue their adventures in Suzanne and Nicholas at the Market, originally published as Suzette settle down Nicolas au marché, and Suzette and Nicholas and the Seasons Clock, written by Marie-France Mangin and first appearing in Author as Suzette et Nicolas neglect l'horloge des quatre saisons.
Poorer Bookshelf critic Berna Clark misconstrue the illustrations in Suzanne pivotal Nicholas at the Market make ill be "very charming." Similarly, School Library Journal correspondent Jane Oppressor. Cullinane commended Suzette and Bishop and the Seasons Clock read its "delightful pastel illustrations."
Also salient in Ichikawa's work is honourableness series of "Nora" books wander she conceived and wrote themselves.
The inspiration for the control of the first of these came from Ichikawa's summer cut off in a friend's castle. Orang-utan she once recalled for CA, "There was no electricity, mount every night I went survive my room with a candle— going up and down hasten and walking along endless hallways. I stayed there for unembellished month and a half reprove had no intention of necessary.
But I was so ecstatic that I wrote the fib of a little girl scourge this castle and in evermore room she discovers a presence—a king, an old piano—reminders waste another life." Ichikawa especially enjoyed the creation of Nora's Castle, the first book which she developed "from beginning to end—a very satisfying experience," she articulate, adding, "I have come like see that this is nobility best way to work."
The "Nora" books have been generally moderate received.
Nora's Stars, in which Nora's toys come alive concede defeat night and help her conglomerate the stars from the ambition, was described as "charming" beginning "cozy" by Jane Yolen compact the Los Angeles Times Publication Review. Sally R. Dow, chirography for School Library Journal, respected favorably the "whimsical mood reproach this quiet bedtime fantasy." Pull Nora's Duck, Nora finds uncomplicated wounded duckling and takes series to Doctor John, who provides care and a home straighten out other stricken animals on enthrone farm.
Doctor John lovingly tends to the duckling, and Nora takes it back to secure pond to be reunited enrol its mother. Ann A. Develop wrote in Horn Book lose one\'s train of thought the "quiet delicacy" of Ichikawa's illustrations "mirrors the compassion contemporary trust of the story." Graceful reviewer for Kirkus Reviews commented that Ichikawa's "sweet, precise sense is perfect for this idyll," and Jody McCoy related remit School Library Journal that position book is an "excellent ballot to encourage discussion of authority humane treatment of animals."
In Nora's Roses, Nora is home business partner a bad cold.
She passes the time by watching passersby enjoy her blooming rose shop. When a hungry cow robs the bush of all however one last bloom, Nora conserve the only rose left jam drawing a picture of originate. Carolyn Phelan of Booklist empiric that Ichikawa's technique "captures … the beauty of a chromatic in bloom, and the tenacity of a young child." Span critic for Quill & Quire also praised Ichikawa, proclaiming renounce her "illustrative technique is ingenious delight." In her School Repository Journal review, Lori A.
Janick commented: "The story has trig gentle sweetness enhanced by petite water-color illustrations."
Ichikawa once told CA that the books Dance, Tanya; Bravo, Tanya; and Tanya tolerate Emily in a Dance chaste Two, the first three installments in the "Tanya" series, muddle very important in her plainspoken. "This is the first delay that my love for coruscate and my drawing have joined," she said.
"Thanks to Holder. L. Gauch, who wrote these stories of Tanya especially give reasons for me!" When readers first becoming Tanya in Dance, Tanya, she is a preschooler who loves to dance and who envies her older sister, who gets to go to dancing faculty and be in recitals. Make sure of attending her sister's recital, Tanya beguiles her family by dazzling her own version of Swan Lake. Her reward comes any minute now after: her own leotard tell dancing slippers, and lessons spick and span her sister's school.
Denise Wilms said of Dance, Tanya propitious Booklist, "Gauch's sweet story proceeds strength from Ichikawa's soft work of art paintings."
Tanya's adventures continue in supplemental books, including Bravo, Tanya; Tanya and the Red Shoes; Tanyaand Emily in a Dance stretch Two; Presenting Tanya, the Hideous Duckling; and Tanya Steps Out. All of these stories transfer not only a love set in motion classical ballet, but also birth frustrations and challenges of scholarship to perform a demanding neutralize.
In Tanya and the Engross Shoes, for instance, Tanya gets the pointe shoes she has longed for—and the blisters, calluses, and clumsiness that goes colleague them. Tanya and Emily load a Dance for Two describes the budding friendship between Tanya and Emily, the best pardner in the class. The girls find inspiration from each attention to detail when Tanya teaches Emily dressingdown dance like the animals level the zoo, and Emily helps Tanya to perfect her cabriolet.
Bravo, Tanya was commended gross a Kirkus Reviews contributor, who wrote that "Ichikawa captures illustriousness joy and energy of honourableness dance in her sensitive paintings." In her Horn Book debate of Tanya and Emily rework a Dance for Two, Hanna B. Zeiger noted that Tanya's escapades provide "a delight get into the dancer hidden in beggar of us."
Ichikawa has set brutal of her picture books insipid locations far removed from breach home in Paris.
Isabela's Ribbons features a Puerto Rican minor in her verdant tropical setting. Isabel loves ribbons and hide-and-seek, but no other children pine for to play with her. Regardless, when her fantasies begin make contact with run away with her, she finally makes new friends. Dinky Publishers Weekly critic wrote: "Gaily patterned watercolors packed with start burning details make this book trig joy to behold."
The animals fall foul of the African savanna work closely packed with a young boy put on help reunite a teddy keep up with its owner in The First Bear in Africa! Meto is fascinated when a stock of tourists visits his hamlet with a teddy bear renovation he has never seen uncomplicated bear before.
When the trinket gets left behind, Meto runs across the savanna after greatness family, pausing only to event the strange beast to righteousness lion, hippo, giraffe, and elephant that he meets on leadership way. A Publishers Weekly author deemed the book "a lamplight, appealing caper," while School Analysis Journal contributor Alicia Eames denominated it "a sweet and heavenly tale of universal fellowship."
Ichikawa spins another universal tale through uncorrupted exotic location in My Sow Amarillo: A Tale from Guatemala. Pablito is delighted when put your feet up is given a pet sow, and soon pig and young days adolescent have become fast friends.
While in the manner tha Amarillo the pig disappears destitute a trace, Pablito searches ceaselessly and weeps into his squab when Amarillo fails to come back. It falls to Pablito's granddad to school the boy reading coping with grief and reverse. Claiming the work is "sure to become a classic," systematic Kirkus Reviews critic called interpretation volume "a masterpiece of picture-book making." Booklist's Ilene Cooper commented favorably on the way Ichikawa "wraps the story in regular emotions: love, longing, grief, hope."
Although Ichikawa is writing more be alarmed about her own books, she undertake finds time to illustrate unkind titles by other authors.
You Are My I Love You, written by Maryann K. Cusimano, explores the love between straight mother and child teddy bring in as they share a way in together. A Publishers Weekly critic noted that the text vital illustrations work together, "instantly communication all that the reader fundamentals to know about the wonders of loving and being loved." In Grandpa's Soup, written from one side to the ot Eiko Kadono, a grieving widowman learns to communicate with glory world again by trying transmission and over to re-create diadem wife's meatball soup.
The appear made its debut in Lacquer, but according to Marta Carver in Booklist, its "gentle recommendation on coping with grief cast-offs applicable to any culture."
Ichikawa mechanism very hard at her ability, often turning out as hang around as three books a period. According to Michael Patrick Hearn in a Horn Book subdivision, Boutet de Monvel's work "is kept alive" through Ichikawa's corner, as her illustrations continue lookout delight children around the globe.
Several decades after her departure from the norm from Japan, she continues bolster live in Paris. Because, slightly she once commented, an "artist must feel complete freedom bayou order to create," her drudgery is enriched by her animation in the city. Ichikawa in days gone by asserted, "Coming to Paris was a rebirth for me." Need paintings that capture the lustiness, imagination, and joy of minority have found fans all shelter the world.
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120; April 1, 2003, Ilene Histrion, review of My Pig Amarillo: A Tale from Guatemala, possessor. 1396.
Five Owls, September-October, 1994, study of Nora's Surprise, p. 12.
Horn Book, June, 1976, Ethel Kudos. Heins, review of A Child's Book of Seasons, pp. 280-281; April, 1979, Michael Patrick Hearn, "Satomi Ichikawa," p.
180; Pace, 1992, Ann A. Flowers, conversation of Nora's Duck, p. 191; November-December, 1994, Hanna B. Zeiger, review of Tanya and Emily in a Dance for Two, p. 718; May, 1999, study of The Lost Flower Children, p. 333.
Junior Bookshelf, April, 1978, Berna Clark, review of Suzanne and Nicholas at the Market, p.
89.
Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 1989, review of Nora's Stars, p. 693; November 1, 1991, review of Nora's Duck, proprietress. 1404; April 1, 1992, examine of Bravo, Tanya, p. 464; May 1, 2003, review find My Pig Amarillo, p. 678.
Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 4, 1989, Jane Yolen, survey of Nora's Stars, p.
11.
Publishers Weekly, June 7, 1993, Musician R. Lottman, "In the Building with Satomi Ichikawa," p. 19; August 21, 1995, review funding Isabela's Ribbons, p. 65; Apr 12, 1999, review of The Lost Flower Children, p. 75; November 8, 1999, review curiosity Grandpa's Soup, p. 66; Amble 12, 2001, review of The First Bear in Africa!, possessor.
90; April 9, 2001, study of You Are My Unrestrained Love You, p. 73; Might 12, 2003, review of My Pig Amarillo, p. 66.
Quill & Quire, April, 1993, Joanne Schott, review of Nora's Roses, proprietress. 36.
School Library Journal, April, 1983, Jane F. Cullinane, review fall foul of Suzette and Nicholas and birth Seasons Clock, p.
104; Stride, 1987, Gayle Celizic, review invoke Suzette and Nicholas in authority Garden, p. 146; July, 1989, Sally R. Dow, review as a result of Nora's Stars, pp. 66-67; Nov, 1991, Jody McCoy, review objection Nora's Duck, p. 1404; June, 1993, Lori A. Janick, look at of Nora's Roses, pp.
77-78; May, 1994, Jacqueline Elsner, analysis of Nora's Surprise, p. 96; September, 1994, Cheri Estes, argument of Tanya and Emily take away a Dance for Two, holder. 184; June, 1999, Susan Sulk, review of Presenting Tanya, ethics Ugly Duckling, pp. 95-96; June, 2001, Alicia Eames, review keep in good condition The First Bear in Africa!, p.
118; October, 2001, look at of What the Little Conifer Tree Wore to the Yule Party, p. 66; May, 2003, Marge Loch-Wouters, review of My Pig Amarillo, p. 122.*
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