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Shelley Tanaka

SHELLEY TANAKA is an award-winning author, translator and editor. She has written more than twenty books for children and young adults, winning the Orbis Pictus Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the Science in Society Book Award and the Information Book Award, and she has twice been nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Other honors include Texas Blue Bonnet runner-up, School Library Journal Best Books, ALA Notables and IRA Young Adults’ Choice. Her translation of Michel Noel’s Good for Nothing won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and was on the IBBY Honor List (Commended). Shelley teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in the MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

 

Books by Shelley Tanaka

First Times: Short Stories about Sex

edited by Karine Glorieux
translated by Shelley Tanaka

Marcel with a Splash

illustrated by Julia Sørensen
translated by Shelley Tanaka

Taming Papa

by (author) Mylène Goupil
translated by Shelley Tanaka

Suck It in and Smile

by (author) Laurence Beaudoin-Masse
translated by Shelley Tanaka

Pebbles to the Sea

by (author) Marie-Andrée Arsenault
illustrated by Dominique Leroux
translated by Shelley Tanaka

I Have the Right to Culture

by (author) Alain Serres
illustrated by Aurélia Fronty
translated by Shelley Tanaka

I Have the Right to Save My Planet

by (author) Alain Serres
illustrated by Aurélia Fronty
translated by Shelley Tanaka

The Day the Rain Moved In

illustrated by Éléonore Douspis
translated by Shelley Tanaka

My Body in Pieces

illustrated by Marie-Noëlle Hébert
translated by Shelley Tanaka

The Big Bad Wolf in My House

by (author) Valérie Fontaine
illustrated by Nathalie Dion
translated by Shelley Tanaka

Grandfather and the Moon

by (author) Stephanie Lapointe
illustrated by Rogé
translated by Shelley Tanaka

Nobody Knows

by (author) Shelley Tanaka

Climate Change Revised Edition

A Groundwork Guide

by (author) Shelley Tanaka

Good for Nothing

by (author) Michel Noël
translated by Shelley Tanaka