Naoko Stoop

Naoko Stoop is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her love of drawing began when she was a young child growing up in Japan. She uses found materials including plywood and brown paper bags as her canvas. She is the creator of picture books including Red Knit Cap Girl, which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book, and the illustrator of Woods & Words by Sara Holly Ackerman, a Stonewall Children’s Literature Award Honor Book, among others