His regular collaborators include Hiawyn Oram, Roger McGough, and John Agard. Satoshi Kitamura is a Japanese children's picture book author and illustrator, famous for quirky perspectives, brilliant watercolors, attention to details, and unique characters. In addition to books, his credits include designing posters for Tokyo Underground and signage at Birmingham Children's Hospital in the United Kingdom and one of his signature cats, this one called Browser, is a logo for the Seven Stories in Newcastle, United Kingdom. In 2009 he moved back to Japan and continues to travel and work for publishers across the globe. His other famous books are When Sheep Cannot Sleep (1986), UFO diary (1989), Me and My Cat? (1999).
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing was adapted into an animation series that screened on the BBC and also sold to overseas markets. Here the full range of Kitamura's skills is on display - crazy plot, thoughtful characters, luscious landscapes and crepuscular urban scenes bristling with architectural detail. One of his finest books is Sheep in Wolves' Clothing (1995). Satoshi translates all his own work into Japanese and his books have been published in many languages, including Spanish and Korean. His work includes over 20 of his own books and he has contributed as an illustrator for other books. In his books, Kitamura interweaves Japanese and Western visual traditions in illustrations. It is full of visual clues to help lead children through alphabetically ordered pairs of lower-case letters. In 1985 Kitamura issued What’s Inside: The Alphabet Book, the first of his many solo children’s book projects.
His first work was illustrating the book Angry Arthur by Hiawyn Oram (1983). He started illustrating for Andersen Press in 1981 after he had an exhibition of his work at the Neal Street Gallery in Covent Garden. Then he moved to London and worked there at greeting cards designing. He held this position from 1976 till 1979.
Satoshi Kitamura began his career at the age of nineteen as a commercial artist working as an illustrator for adverts and magazines.
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