His novel Dust received the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in 2001, and The Hunchback Assignments won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2010. Slade became a full-time writer after the publication of his first novel for middle years, Draugr, followed by others such as Dust and Tribes.
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From the catalog copy: Governor General’s Award-winner Arthur Slade has gathered together fifteen scary critters, ranging from Dracula to Golem, from Frankenstein to Baba Yaga and even a zombie. He then worked as a night auditor at a hotel for several months and as a copywriter for a radio station in Saskatoon for several years. Monsterology: Fabulous Lives of the Creepy, the Revolting, and the Undead by Arthur Slade, illustrated by Derek Mah (Tundra, 2005). His first short story was published that same year. He attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and received an English Honours degree in 1989. A resident of Saskatoon, he was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills and began writing in high school. JSTOR ( July 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īrthur Gregory Slade (born Jin Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Lively black-and-white illustrations by Derek Mah make this a book that is sure to be a hit with every monster-loving reader.This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Slade's hilarious text presents delicious imagined gossip, favorite blood types, favorite movies, and even favorite haunts (you should pardon the expression) with character descriptions and thoroughly researched background information. He provides facts, real history, imagined history, and lots of jokes to make these creatures come to life. Monsterology- Fabulous Lives of the Creepy, the Revolting, and the Undead is the most fun anyone can have with some of the nastiest creatures ever imagined! Who can resist morsels like the fact that "Drakul" means "son of the dragon" in Romanian, that the first Golem may have been Enkidu, who appeared in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, and that Frankenstein's Monster was first inspired by Mary Shelley's nightmare? Governor General's Award-winner Arthur Slade has gathered together fifteen scary critters, ranging from Dracula to Golem, from Frankenstein to Baba Yaga and even a zombie.
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