was an award-winning Japanese children's author and illustrator.
He won the Grand Prize for ''Kyabetsu-kun'' (Cabbage Boy) in 1981.
Life
Chō was born Shuji Suzuki in
Tokyo
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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).
Awards
*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 Award
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature". Th ...
s for ''Oshaberi na tamagoyaki'' (The Talkative Omelet)
*1977 - he won the for Children's Picture Books for ''Haru desu yo, Fukurō Obasan'' (Spring Is Here, Auntie Owl).
*1981 - he won the 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
Children's books
*''
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
External links
Shinta Cho on Books from Japan
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Japanese children's writers
Manga artists
Japanese children's book illustrators
1927 births
2005 deaths
People from Tokyo