Kiyo Tanaka (田中 清代, Tanaka Kiyo, born 1972) is a Japanese picture book author and etcher.
[2][3][4] In 1995, she won the UNICEF Award at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
[1] Her first children's picture book Mizutama no Chiwawa (みずたまのチワワ, text by Arano Inoue) was published in 1997.
[1][2] Since then she has worked mainly on children's picture books including Okiniiri (おきにいり, 1997), Obakega kowai Kotoko-chan (おばけがこわいことこちゃん, 2000), Tomato-san (トマトさん, 2002), Nee dakko shite (ねえ だっこして, 2004) and The Little One (くろいの, 2018).
[3][4] She won the "Purple Island Award"[5] at the Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours in South Korea,[6][7] the 25th Japan Picture Book Award [ja] Grand Prize in 2020 and the 68th Shogakukan Children's Publishing Culture Award [ja] for The Little One.