Shinta cho biography for kids

Shinta Chō(Japanese: , September 24 1927 - June 25 2005) was an award-winning Japanese children’s author and illustrator. He won the Japan Picture Book Awards [ja] Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy) in 1981.

Life

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).

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 Awards for Oshaberi na tamagoyaki (The Talkative Omelet)
• 1977 - he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award [ja] for Children's Picture Books for Haru desu yo, Fukurō Obasan (Spring Is Here, Auntie Owl).
• 1981 - he won the Japan Picture Book Awards [ja] Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-ku