Shinta Chō
Shinta Chō (Japanese: 長新太, September 24, 1927 - June 25, 2005) was an award-winning Japanese children's author and illustrator.[1][2] He won the Japan Picture Book Awards Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy) in 1981.
Life
[edit]Chō was born Shuji Suzuki in Tokyo in 1928. He began illustrating cartoon strips in the late 1940s. He created the Talkative Fried Egg cartoon for a cartoon monthly in 1959. He also wrote children's books, including The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts (Japan 1978, USA 1994).[3]
Awards
[edit]- 1959 - he won the Bungei Shunju Manga Award for Oshaberi na tamagoyaki (The Talkative Omelet)
- 1974 - he won an honourable mention in the Hans Christian Andersen Awards for Oshaberi na tamagoyaki (The Talkative Omelet)
- 1977 - he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award for Children's Picture Books for Haru desu yo, Fukurō Obasan (Spring Is Here, Auntie Owl).
- 1981 - he won the Japan Picture Book Awards Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy)
- 1986 - he won an award for Sakasama raion (Upside-Down Lion)
- 1994 - he received Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon in recognition of his work as an artist and illustrator
- 1999 - he won a Japanese Picture Book Award for Gomu-atama Pontarō (Rubber-Headed Pontarō)
- 2002 - he won the ExxonMobil Children's Culture Award[1][5]
Children's books
[edit]- The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts (Onara / おなら)
- Umph-a-Lumph, Meow (Tsumi-tsumi nya / つみつみニャー)
- Chorus of Winter Buds (Fuyume gasshodan / ふゆめがっしょうだん)
- The Easygoing Aquarium (Nonbiri suizokukan / ノンビリすいぞくかん)
- The Cats and Their Flying Machine (Gorogoro nyan / ごろごろ にゃーん)
- Up! Up! (Dakko, dakko, née dakko / だっこだっこねえだっこ)
- Rolling Kittens (Korokoro nyan / ころころにゃーん)
- A Worm Named Buddy (Mimizu no ossan / みみずのオッサン)
- Chomp! (Pakkun pakkun / ぱっくんぱっくん)
- Dakuchiru, Dakuchiru
- My Beach (Watashi no Umibe)
- The Talkative Omelet (Oshaberi na tamagoyaki)
- Spring is Here, Auntie Owl (Fukurō Obasan)
- Cabbage Boy (Kyabetsu-kun)
- Upside-Down Lion (Sakasama raion)
- Rubber-Headed Pontarō (Gomu-atama Pontarō)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Shinta Chō". Books from Japan. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "長新太(ちょうしんた)とは - コトバンク" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- ^ Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2005: Film, Television, Radio Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture, by Harris M. Lentz III (McFarland, 2006), p. 67.
- ^ "絵本賞 ： 講談社" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- ^ "Shinta Cho wins award". The Japan Times. 15 November 2002. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
