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Deshan Tennekoon

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A Sri Lankan writer of (mostly) children’s fiction. My new book, 'Mary Anning’s Grewsome Beasts,' is about the famous paleontologist and her discoveries. It's for kids who don't mind dirt under their fingernails.

My books for Think Equal are used in their global SEL curriculum and one 6-year-old said they’re pretty not-bad.

'Podi', A middle-grade graphic novel I co-wrote is due from Oni Press (2023).

'Metta Helmet,' with art by Isuri Dayaratne, appeared in the Eisner and Ignatz Award-winning anthology, 'Elements: Fire'.

I wrote an overview of Sri Lankan art and design for the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Asian Design. To recover, I made a 50-page absurdist comic about time, soup and god. It’s called 'Wait Non Anon' and you can read it for fre ...more

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	Elements: Fire A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color! by Taneka Stotts (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aatmaja Pandya, Deshan Tennekoon (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Real Folk Blues: a Cowboy Bebop Fanbook by Zainab Akhtar (Editor), Nick Dragotta, Ron Wimberly 4.20 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Around the Fort in 80 Lives: Galle Fort, Sri Lanka (Merchant City Series) by Juliet Coombe, Daisy Perry, Deshan Tennekoon (Goodreads Author) (Designer) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Anning's Grewsome Beasts by Deshan Tennekoon (Goodreads Author), Linki Brand (Illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	INK BRICK No. 4 by Alexander Rothman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Louise Aleksiejew, William Cardini (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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