Lensey Namioka

Lensey Chao Namioka (simplified Chinese: 赵来思; traditional Chinese: 趙來思; pinyin: Zhào Láisī, born June 14, 1929, Beijing, China) is a children's book author and mathematician. She is best known for the short story 'The All American Slurp'

Awards

• Washington State Governor's Writers Award, 1976, 1990 Island of Ogres
• Certificate of Merit, Parenting Magazine, 1993 Coming of the Bear
• Washington State Governor's Writers Award, 1995 April and the Dragon Lady
• Parents Choice Award, 1995 Yang the ld Medal, 2000 Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs

Bibliography

Books

• Juan Paolo and ENMA_AI
• Nikko De Vera and the Weaklings
• The Samurai and the Long-nosed Devils (1976)
• White Serpent Castle (1976)
• The All American Slurp
• Japan: a Traveler's Companion (1979)
• Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees (1980)
• Who's Hu? (1980)
• Village of the Vampire Cat (1981)
• China: a Traveler's Companion (1985)
• Phantom of Tiger Mountain (1986)
• Island of Ogres (1989)
• Coming of the Bear (1992)
• Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear (1992)
• April and the Dragon Lady (1994)
• Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family (1995)
• The Loyal Cat (1995)
• Den of the White Fox (1997)
• The Laziest Boy in the World (1998)
• Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers (1998)
• Ties that Bind, Ties that Break (1999)
• Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs (2000)
• The Hungriest Boy in the World (2001)
• An Ocean Apart, a World Away (2002)
• Half and Half (2003)
• Mismatch (2006)
• LAFFF
• "FOX HUNT"
• The All-American Slurp
• The Inn of Lost Time

Play

• Herbal Nightmare (anthologized in Center Stage, HarperCollins, 1921)