Happy 100th, Michio Mado! (Japanese poet and Hans Christian Andersen Medalist)
Lenona
From Wikipedia:
"Michio Mado was born as Michio Ishida in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi
prefecture. He spent his childhood with his grandfather because his
parents went to work in Taiwan. Later he joined his family there. He
graduated from the School of Industrial Instruction in Taipei and then
worked for the Office of the Governor-General."
http://tinyurl.com/yer6rfz
(Google Books, about his work)
http://rubinaitis.lnb.lt/rub/m/m_images/wfiles/isi9ex1931.jpg
(photo)
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=michio+mado&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0
(a couple of covers)
From Contemporary Authors:
Michio Mado is one of Japan's best-known writers of poetry for
children. Two of his collections have been published with English-
language translations provided by Empress Michiko of Japan, a poet in
her own right. The Animals: Selected Poems was the first of Mado's
works to be available in a language other than Japanese. A Publishers
Weekly contributor called the poems in this collection "delicate,
thoughtful, and quiet small gems that reflect the poet's intense
affinity for nature." Each of the twenty verses appears in Japanese on
the left page, and in English on the facing page. Papercut
illustrations by award-winning illustrator Mitsumasa Anno enhance the
text. A Kirkus Reviews contributor commented that Mado "responds to
the world of nature with rueful wonder and a gently philosophical
tone. Lovely."
WRITINGS:
* Fukei shishu, Kado Sobo, 1979.
* Mado Michio Zenshishu, Rironsha (Tokyo, Japan), 1992.
* Mado-san to Sakat-san no Kotoba asobi, Komine Shoten (Tokyo,
Japan), 1992.
* The Animals: Selected Poems, illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno,
Margaret K. McElderberry (New York, NY), 1992.
* The Magic Pocket: Selected Poems, illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno,
Margaret K. McElderberry (New York, NY), 1992.
Also author of Tempura piripiri, 1968.
Lenona.