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Canadian children's writer and book editor
Shelley Tanaka
Born
Toronto ,
Ontario Occupation Editor, writer, translator, writing teacher Period 1980s–present Genre Children's literature, non-fiction
Shelley Tanaka is a
Canadian editor of numerous
young adult novels , an author of non-fiction for children, a translator, and a writing teacher.
Shelley Tanaka was born in
Toronto ,
Ontario , Canada. She received an Honours bachelor's degree in English and German from
Queen's University , and a master's degree in Comparative Literature from the
University of Toronto .
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[2] She lives in
Ontario, Canada .
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Tanaka began her editing career at
Clarke Irwin .
[4] She has been the fiction editor at
Groundwood Books , a Canadian children's book publisher, since 1983 and has edited books by many Canadian writers, including
Tim Wynne-Jones ,
Deborah Ellis , Martha Brooks,
Sarah Ellis and Alan Cumyn. She is the editor of thirteen
Governor General's Award winning books.
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Shelley Tanaka writes
nonfiction for children, including books in the I Was There series and A Day That Changed America series. She has won numerous awards for her writing, among them the
Orbis Pictus Award in 2009.
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Her books have been translated into several languages: German, Danish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Thai.
[8] Additionally, she has translated many
children's picture books and novels from German and French into English.
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Tanaka teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at
Vermont College of Fine Arts .
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Amelia Earhart : The Legend of the Lost Aviator won the
Orbis Pictus Award in 2009.
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Translation of Good for Nothing by Michel Noël was on the
IBBY Honour List for translation in 2006.
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Secrets of the Mummies won the Science in Society Children's Book Award in 2000.
Discovering the Iceman won the Mr. Christie's Book Award in 1997.
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On Board the
Titanic won the Silver Birch Award in 1997.
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The Buried City of Pompei won the Information Book Award in 1997.
On Board the Titanic won the Information Book Award in 1996.
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On Board the Titanic and The Buried City of Pompeii were finalists for the
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis .
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Amelia Earhart : The Legend of the Lost Aviator (2008)
In the Time of
Knights (2000)
One More Border: The True Story of One Family’s Escape from War-Torn Europe , co-written with
William Kaplan (1998)
Climate Change (2006)
A Great Round Wonder: My Book of the World (1991)
The Heat Is On: Facing Our Energy Problem (1991)
Mummies : The Newest, Coolest & Creepiest from Around the World (2005)
New Dinos (2003)
Secrets of the
Mummies (1999)
Graveyards of the
Dinosaurs (1998)
Discovering the Iceman (1996)
"Ghost Town" a short story in Dear Canada – Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival (2011)
Anne of Green Gables by
L. M. Montgomery , adapted for young readers (1998)
The Illustrated Father Goose (1995)
Mr. Dressup's Birthday Party Book (1988)
Mr. Dressup's 50 More Things to Make and Do , written with
Ernie Coombs (1984, 1991)
Mr. Dressup's Things to Make and Do , written with Ernie Coombs (1982, 1991)
Michi's New Year (1980)
Books translated into English by Shelley Tanaka
French
The Birthday Party by Michel Aubin (1987)
The Secret Code by Michel Aubin (1987)
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Himalaya by Tenzing Norbu Lama (2002)
Secret of the
Snow Leopard by Tenzing Norbu Lama (2004)
Good for Nothing by
Michel Nöel (2004)
Broken Memory by Élisabeth Combres (2009)
Grandfather and the Moon by
Stéphanie Lapointe (2017)
German
The Fire: An Ethiopian Folk Tale by Heinz Janisch (Groundwood Books, 2002)
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True Friends: Tales from
Tanzania by
John Kilaka (Groundwood, 2006), picture book
OCLC
61300807
Girl from Mars by
Tamara Bach (Groundwood, 2009)
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Definitely Not for Little Ones: Some Very
Grimm Fairy Tale Comics by Rotraut Susanne Berner (Groundwood, 2009)
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Hound and Hare by Rotraut Susannne Berner (Groundwood, 2011)
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Ward, Barbara A. and Terrell A. Young. "Talking with Shelley Tanaka." Booklist Online . 2 June 2009.
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