{"id":5551,"date":"2014-06-20T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=5551"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:26:49","slug":"raymond-nakamura","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/raymond-nakamura\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Nakamura"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Raymond Nakamura grew up in Toronto and studied zoology and Japanese at the University of Toronto.\u00a0 He completed an M.Sc. in marine ecology from Kyushu University, Japan in 1988.\u00a0 His Ph.D. dissertation in zoology at the University of Toronto is entitled A Current Affair: The Role of Hydrodynamics in the Ecology and Evolution of the Pacific Sand Dollar, Dendraster Excentricus (Eschscholtz) (Clypeasteroida: Scutellina).<\/em>\u00a0 Nakamura worked as an educator at the Vancouver Aquarium and then as an educational curator at Science World, B.C.\u00a0\u00a0 He now works as a freelance educational consultant, writer, and cartoonist based in Vancouver, B.C.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h3>\n

Peach Girl<\/h3>\n

Story by Raymond Nakamura, illustrations by Rebecca Bender.
\nToronto: Pajama Press, 2014.
\nPZ8.1 .N343 P43 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

When the farmer and her husband find a giant peach at their door, they can\u2019t imagine how it got there. But they are even more surprised when the skin bursts open and out leaps\u2026 a girl.<\/p>\n

Feisty Momoko declares that she is here to make the world a better place, and what better way to start than by investigating the rumours about a fearsome local ogre? Everyone says the ogre is taller than a tree, has teeth like knives, shoots flames from his eyes, and eats small children. The villagers won\u2019t go near him. But Momoko wants to find out for herself, and her new friends Monkey, Dog, and Pheasant might just be able to help her\u2014as long as she\u2019s willing to share those tasty peach dumplings.<\/p>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

2014 First & Best selection<\/a> — Toronto Public Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Links<\/h3>\n

Publisher Pajama Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Raymond Nakamura personal website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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