Keith McGowan

KEITH MCGOWAN has worked most of his life as an educator. He helped run an elementary after school program and day camp, taught mathematics and science, volunteered for a year as a teacher in Haiti, and tutored students who were unable to attend school full time. An avid traveler, Keith began writing "The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children," in Himachal Pradesh, India, staring at the Himalayan mountains, and continued working on it in Boston, New Orleans, and Chicago, and Vienna, Austria, where he now lives with his wife. "The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children" is his first novel for children.
YOKO TANAKA is the illustrator of several books, including "Sparrow Girl." She lives in Thailand.