Marsha Skrypuch Explained

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Birth Date:	12 December 1954
Occupation:	Author
Genre:	Children's Literature
Birth Name:	Marsha Forchuk
Nationality:	Ukrainian/Canadian
Birth Place:	Brantford, ON, Canada
Alma Mater:	University of Western Ontario

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (;^[1] born 1954) is a Ukrainian-Canadian children's writer who currently lives in Brantford, Ontario.

She received a B.A. in English and a Master of Library Science from the University of Western Ontario, and began writing fiction in 1992. Her first book, Silver Threads, was published in 1996.^[2]

Marsha Skrypuch is the author of many books for children and young adults. She primarily writes about war from a young person's perspective. She is also the author of the Making Bombs for Hitler trilogy which consists of Making Bombs for Hitler,^[3] The War Below, and Stolen Girl.

Works

• Silver Threads – 1996
• The Best Gifts – 1998
• The Hunger – 1999
• Enough – 2000
• Hope's War – 2001
• Nobody's Child – 2003
• Aram's Choice – 2006
• Kobzar's Children: A Century of Untold Ukrainian Stories – 2006
• Dear Canada

Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914 – 2007

• Daughter of War – 2008
• Call Me Aram – 2009
• A Christmas To Remember – 2009 -- "An Unexpected Visitor" was written by Skrypuch for this anthology.
• Stolen Girl (originally Stolen Child) – 2010
• Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War – 2011
• Making Bombs For Hitler – 2012
• One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way – 2012
• When Mama Goes to Work – 2013
• Underground Soldier – 2014
• Dance of the Banished – 2014
• Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival – 2016
• Don't Tell the Nazis (originally Don't Tell the Enemy) – 2018
• The War Below (originally Underground Soldier) - 2018
• Trapped in Hitler's Web - 2020
• Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars; A Vietnamese War Orphan Finds Home - 2020 (omnibus edition of Last Airlift and One Step at a Time)
• Traitors Among Us - 2021
• Winterkill - 2022

Awards

• 1996, Taras Shevchenko for Silver Threads
• 2000, CCBC's Our Choice Award for The Hunger
• 2001, CCBC's Our Choice Award for Enough
• 2002, CCBC's Our Choice Award for Hope's War
• 2004 CCBC's Our Choice Award for Nobody's Child
• 2006 CCBC's Our Choice for Aram's Choice
• 2008 Order of Princess Olga, for her writing on the Holodomor, in particular her book Enough
• 2010 Woman of Distinction, World Congress of Ukrainian Women's Organizations
• 2010 Calliope Award for outstanding writing and mentoring, Humber School for Writers
• 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Americas, for Stolen Child^[4]
• 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Last Airlift
• 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids: Stolen Child
• 2012 CCBC Best Books For Kids, Starred Review: Making Bombs For Hitler
• 2012 CCBC Best Books for Kids: Making Bombs For Hitler
• 2013 Red Cedar Book Award Winner in category "Information", Last Airlift^[5]
• 2013 Silver Birch Fiction Winner: Making Bombs For Hitler
• 2014 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award: Making Bombs For Hitler^[6]
• 2014 Silver Birch non-fiction Winner: One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way^[7]
• 2014 Underground Soldier: Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids
• 2015 Underground Soldier: Geoffrey Bilson Award nominee
• 2015 Dance of the Banished: Geoffrey Bilson Award WINNER
• 2015 Dance of the Banished: Junior Library Guild selection April
• 2015 Dance of the Banished: CCBC Best Books for Kids
• 2015 Dance of the Banished: The White Ravens selection 2015
• 2016 Dance of the Banished: USBBY Outstanding International Book
• 2016 Underground Soldier: Kobzar Literary Award nominee
• 2016 Adrift At Sea: Resource Links Best Book
• 2017 Adrift At Sea: Starred selection: ABC CLIO
• 2017 Adrift At Sea: Starred selection: CCBC Best Books for Kids
• 2017 The Best Gifts: Storytelling World Resource Honor Book
• 2017 Adrift At Sea: 2017 Canadian Children’s Literature Roundtables Information Book Award, Honour Book
• 2017 Adrift At Sea: Cybils Finalist for MG non-fiction.
• 2018 Adrift At Sea: Golden Oak Award shortlist,
• 2018–19 Adrift At Sea: Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice nominee,
• 2018 Adrift At Sea: Selected for Pope Francis exhibit, Bologna Italy,

External links

• • Writers' Union of Canada
• Marsha Skrypuch at the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, and Performers (CANSCAIP.org)
• IBBY Canada interview with Marsha Skrypuch
• Open Book Toronto interview On Writing

Notes and References

1. Web site: Making Bombs for Hitler, first scenes. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/jE-LRWSTGzE. 2021-12-12 . live. . 27 July 2021.
2. Web site: CM Magazine Profile: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch . Umanitoba.ca . 2015-07-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070207063232/http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/skrypuch.html . 2007-02-07 . dead .
3. Book: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk . Making Bombs for Hitler . 2012-01-01 . Scholastic Canada . 978-1-4431-1931-3 . en.
4. Web site: Current News - SCBWI . 2011-06-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110709064550/http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Current-News?2011-SCBWI-Crystal-Kite-Awards-Announced- . 2011-07-09 .
5. Web site: Archived copy . 2016-09-05 . 2021-06-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210628054432/https://www.redcedaraward.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2015_2016_Previous_rc_readers.pdf . dead .
6. Web site: Award Ceremony 2014 – Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards. www.myrca.ca. 2016-09-05.
7. Web site: Author Marsha Skrypuch wins Silver Birch Award. Brantford Expositor. 2016-09-05.