Camellia Koo is an award winning Toronto-based set and costume designer for theatre, opera, dance and site-specific performance installations. Koo graduated from the Ryerson Theatre School (now Toronto Metropolitan University) with a focus on technical production. Koo also completed an M.A. in scenography. Yaya and the Dan-tats is her debut book.
Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)
Yaya and the Dan-tats
Illustrated by Phoebe Xiao.
Toronto: Annick Press, 2025.
forthcoming
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
The narrator of this story is on her weekly visit to her Yaya at his nursing home and has brought him, like always, dan-tats for them to eat together. But as Yaya zooms away in his wheelchair, she has a hard time keeping up: trying to track him down leads to run-ins with many of the other unfamiliar residents, not to mention Nurses Joey and Anna, who are trying to keep things orderly. Just when she starts to worry Yaya may have forgotten about her, a trail of their favorite custard tart crumbs leads the way back to him. Finally, they head to his room to share their weekly treat, but not before making a few more stops, and a few new friends, along the way.