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. 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, but they are filled with fun angles and perspectives and amazing details." In 2001, Takahashi moved to her adopted home of Seattle, which is now her favorite city.
Education
Graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan 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.
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
