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Charles Folkard

Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a show at the Egyptian Hall in London. His artistic talent became evident when began designing his own programmes for his magic shows. He contributed humorous drawings to Little Folks and the Tatler, and received his breakthrough in 1910 when he entered the gift book market with The Swiss Family Robinson. His drawings of island flora and fauna reveal a mastery of technique. In 1911, he created seventy-seven drawings and eight watercolour plates for Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, a volume which remained the definitive edition and in print for decades. The Children's Shakespeare and Grimm's Fairy Tales were published the same year and represent his first work for the publishing firm of A. & C. Black. The partnership lasted 27 years. His next works for the firm were Aesop's Fables (1912), The Arabian Nights (1913), and Ottoman Wonder Tales (1915), a work that evokes the style of Perisan manuscripts. Folkard's The Adventures of Teddy Tail was the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip and became instantly popular when it premiered in the Daily Mail on 5 April 1915. The mouse character was named after his three-year-old son Ted. The exploits of Teddy Tail and Dr. Beetle, the Penny Princess, Golliwog, Snail, and Teddy's other friends were reproduced in a series of books between 1915 and 1926: Teddy Tail in Nursery Rhyme Land (1915), Teddy Tail in Fairyland (1916), Teddy Tail's Alphabet (1921), and Teddy Tail's Adventures in the A B Sea (1926). The success of the character inspired other newspapers to create similar characters such as Pip and Squeak, and Rupert. After World War I, Folkard continued to produce arrays of books for the firm of A. & C. Black including Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (1919), British Fairy and Folk Tales (1920), Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1921), The Magic Egg (1922), and the Polish tale, The Troubles of a Gnome. His masterpiece The Land of Nursery Rhyme (1932) was praised for its watercolour and gouache depictions of Old King Cole, The Queen of Hearts, and other nursery rhyme favourites.

In his later years, he produced several volumes for the Children's Illustrated Classics series published by Dent including Roger Lancelyn Green's anthology The Book of Nonsense, by Many Authors (1956). The volume included his imaginative study A Nonsense Miscellany, a seaside scene that incorporated Baron Munchausen, Struwwelpeter, and a variety of characters from the works of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.

He was still actively illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963 From; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Folkard

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Scottish illustrator, glass-engraver and teacher. She was educated at George Watson’s Ladies College in Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and later, at Edinburgh College of Art, where she specialized in wood-engraving. During the 1930s and 1940s she illustrated several books for Thomas Nelson & Sons of Edinburgh and designed and illustrated catalogues and advertisements for the Edinburgh & Leith Flint Glass Co., as well as submitting designs for intaglio work and tablewares. Her first exhibited glass was shown in the exhibition of British Art in Industry at the Royal Academy, London, in 1935. In 1938 she studied glass engraving, cutting and etching under Professor Wilhelm von Eiff (1890–1943) at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, returning to Britain at the outbreak of World War II. In March 1940 she established her own studio, and in January 1941 she started the department of Glass Design at the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1943 she married Professor W. E. S. Turner (1881–1963) and in 1947 she was appointed a full-time instructor at the college. By 1965 a furnace was added to the department so that all aspects of glass design and making could be taught. In 1956 she established the Juniper Green Workshop with John Lawrie (b 1928) on the outskirts of Edinburgh and for the rest of her career she worked on a wide range of commissions, from small-scale items to such large architectural panels as the windows at the National Library of Scotland. From; http://www.aliceinwonderlandbooks.com/page_373408.html

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A H Watson

Alice Helena Watson was born in 1896 in Cockermouth, Cumbria. She was the second child of Alice Maria Bladen and Stephen Beamont Watson. They lived comfortably in a nice home with several servants. Alice was one of three children, Charles being the eldest and Euphemia - Effie for short - the youngest. From an early age the careers of the girls were mapped out for them - Alice was to be an artist (although she would have rather have been on stage) and Effie a musician. However, writing was what Effie really enjoyed and she did finally become a writer. She went on to write "The Dragon Who Would Be Good", a children's book which was published in 1929 and illustrated by her sister Alice. For full text see; http://www.stellabooks.com/articles/ah_watson.php

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Rene Cloke

Rene Cloke was born in Plymouth in 1905, but spent most of her life in London. She spent a large part of her career illustrating postcards and greeting cards. Cloke is a very popular and highly collectible illustrator in her own right. She illustrated several of Enid Blyton's books including some of the Brer Rabbit books, The Adventures of Pip (dust jacket only), The Three Golliwogs, and later Dean editions of The Naughty Amelia Jane, Mr Meddle and Mr Pink-Whistle series, and The Pixieland Story Book (Collins 1966). Included in her non-Blyton portfolio are Joy Bells published by Juvenile Productions in 1949, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows. She is also the author of several books including Woodland Stories and Before We Go to Bed. Her playful depictions of children, toys and animals really set her apart from other illustrators. She died in 1995. From; http://www.heathersblytonpages.com/blytonillustrators-a-c.html#Cloke

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Robert Hogfeldt

Swedish (1894-1986) illustrator with quite a Disneyesque style who created a troll world fit for children's books and postcards but quite detached from the trolls of rural folklore. "Urban trolls" one might call them - cute and posing no risk to anybody. He may be said to be the best of the Scandinavian troll postcard artists.

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Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake's masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, is a gothic fantasy whose strange characters' lives are dominated by the labyrinthine castle of Gormenghast and its ancient rituals. Peake was also a brilliant artist which perhaps accounts for the unique visual intensity of his creation. Mervyn Peake was born in China in 1911 of medical missionary parents. He began to draw, paint and write stories at an early age. His first book of poems, Shapes and Sounds, was published in 1941. He is probably best known for his Titus novels - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone - but other well-known poetry collections include: The Glassblowers and The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb. He married Maeve Gilmore in 1937. He was awarded the W.H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Mervyn Peake died after a long illness in 1968. From; http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/mervyn-peake/

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Eileen Alice Soper

Eileen Alice Soper (1905-1990) was born in Enfield but lived the great majority of her life at Harner Green near Welwyn in Hertfordshire. The daughter of illustrator George Soper, she was only fifteen when her work was first accepted by the Royal Academy. She specialised primarily in animals and children, and was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Soper was elected to the Royal Society of Miniature Painters in 1972. http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=57

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G W Backhouse

Geoffrey William Backhouse was born 16 November 1903 and studied art at Heatherleys, subsequently working for Modern Art Studios. In 1927, he began drawing ‘Strongheart the Magnificent’ in Comic Life, the comic strip adventures of a magnificent German Shepherd modelled on a canine Hollywood film star. Strongheart continued his adventures when Comic Life was relaunched as My Favourite and would continue to appear, drawn by a number of different artists, until 1949. Shortly before the war, Backhouse drew ‘The Stolen King’ for Comic Cuts and ‘Buffalo Bill’ for Butterfly. After the war, he illustrated a number of books for Collins including The Children’s Picture Dictionary (1951) and modern editions of Alice In Wonderland and Enid Blyton’s Shadow the Sheepdog. Backhouse’s expertise at drawing animals and nature made him the perfect choice to draw a colourful feature strip starring George Cansdale for Eagle in 1954 and the adventures of ‘Tammy the Sheepdog’ for Swift (1955-58). Backhouse subsequently contributed many wildlife illustrations to Look and Learn and Treasure. He lived at 16 Upper Tollington Park, London N.4, and died on 1 August 1978. from; http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2009/02/g-william-backhouse.html

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Maraja

Libico Maraja was one of Italy's top post-War illustrators. Born in Bellinzona, Svizzera, Maraja studied in Lugano and began his career working for the Ala studios. In 1940, he moved to Berlin, where he cooperated with IMA Film, among others of the animated film 'La Rosa di Bagdad'. After the war, he became wellknown for his book illustrations for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 'Pinocchio', 'Peter Pan', and many other classics. Between 1946 and 1949, he had a brief appearance in comics, when he made stories like 'La Quercia Maledetta' ('Dottor Faust') and 'Un mondo in un albero' for Topolino (Mondadori). from; http://lambiek.net/artists/m/maraja_libico.htm

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Pauline Baynes

Brian Sibley writes, ' in 1977 I was editing Bandersnatch, the newsletter of the Lewis Carroll Society when the discovery of the 'lost' chapter of Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, featuring a Wasp in a Wig reading a newspaper came to light.

The episode had been dropped from the book at proof stage because John Tenniel had said such a bizarre character was beyond his powers to illustrate. But Pauline proved Tenniel wrong by creating a superb miniature which I featured on the mast-head to Bandersnatch for several years.

There are certain illustrators whose work is so intimately interwoven with the author's text as to rank as the books' co-creators. Sir John Tenniel, for example, the first illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and E H Shepard who, with A A Milne, led us into the world of Winnie-the-Pooh. Similarly, Pauline Baynes' pictures of country and denizens in C S Lewis' seven Chronicles of Narnia are still - despite the recent big-screen movie imagery - the definitive depiction of that extraordinary land beyond the wardrobe...

http://briansibleysblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/pauline-baynes-queen-of-narnia-middle.html

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David Walsh

David Walsh lived in Ibiza, Dalt Vila from 1954. From there he illustrated books and kept on working as a cartoonist for Punch. His first paintings – a bridge between a children´s illustrator to a fully fledged painter – had a distinctly Oriental flavour. He signed those “Gopal”. After a short period experimenting in abstract, his very personal expression of reality gradually developed. Serene, poetic, sensuous, often with a mystical surrealistic touch. These first works were in tempera on linen, however, from 1963 he worked with oils, mostly on plate board or wood. His inspiration was Ibiza – his adopted homeland – at times the lush English parks, but the unexpected figures and objects – or dimensions of them – changed these parks, landscapes, roads and beaches into poetry. During all his life he was drawing caricatures and sketches with great wit and sense of humour, at times finishing them of with pastels or oil. He died during holidays in England 1981. From; http://www.davidwalsh.co.uk/english.html

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Ralph Steadman

Ralph Steadman was born in 1936. He started as a cartoonist and through the years diversified into many fields of creativity. He has illustrated such classics as "Alice in Wonderland", "Treasure Island" and "Animal Farm". In 1989 he wrote the libretto for an eco-oratorio called "Plague and the Moonflower" which has been performed in five cathedrals in the UK and was the subject of a BBC 2 film in 1994. He has traveled the world's vineyards and distilleries for Oddbins, which culminated in his two prize-winning books, "The Grapes of Ralph" and "Still Life With Bottle". He has an Honorary D. Litt from the University of Kent. From; http://www.ralphsteadman.com/02ralph.asp

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Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone

The Johnstone sisters' popularity took off in the early 1950s, when they were noticed by publishers and acquired a growing reputation as talented illustrators. They always worked together, passing drawings back and forth across their studio until both twins were satisfied with the final outcome. Janet specialized in animals and birds. Anne focused on the period costumes that so dominated their work. Because of their symbiotic collaboration, until the death of Janet in 1979, there was never a book illustrated under either one of their names alone. The first important book the twins worked on was The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, who was already a very successful playwright and author. In 1956 she invited them to illustrate her first children's book, and it was an immediate success, captivating parents and children alike. Eventually, Smith's book was made into a feature-length animated film by Walt Disney. The twins' further success with later Smith books, The Starlight Barking and The Midnight Kittens, made them the most widely recognized illustrators of children's books in England at the time. Their business association developed into an enduring friendship until Smith died in November 1990. From; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_and_Anne_Grahame_Johnstone

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst was born on 2 April 1891 in Brühl, near Cologne, the first son of Philipp Ernst, teacher of the deaf and amateur painter, and his wife, Luise, née Kopp. Max Ernst never received any formal artistic training. In 1910-1914 he studied philosophy and psychiatry at Bonn University and took a deep interest in painting. In 1914 Ernst got acquainted with Jean (Hans) Arp, and their lifelong friendship began. With the outburst of the First World War Ernst was conscripted to the army, where he served in the field artillery till the end of the war, never dropping his interest in art. It was during the war, in 1916, when he took part in the "Sturm" exhibition in Berlin. To the same period date his first contacts with Dada artists, From http://www.abcgallery.com/E/ernst/ernst.html

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Kuniyoshi Kaneko

His debut in the art world was in the Aoki Gallery "flower blooming maidens". He also illustrated "Alice in Wonderland", and the art book "The World of Kaneko Kuniyoshi". It not only in painting that he is now widely active he also is involved in yukata and kimono design and photos.

青木画廊「花咲く乙女たち」で画壇にデビュー。著書に絵本「不思議の国のアリス」、画集「金子國義の世界」など。現在は絵画のみならず、浴衣と着物のデザインや写真など幅広く活躍。from; http://www.kuniyoshikaneko.com/

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BARRY MOSER

BARRY MOSER was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1940. He was educated at a military academy there, The Baylor School, then at Auburn University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1970. He studied with George Cress, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker, and Jack Coughlin. His work is represented in numerous collections, museums, and libraries in the United States and abroad, including The National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Metropolitan Museum, The British Museum, The Library of Congress, The National Library of Australia, The London College of Printing, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Vatican Library, Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Cambridge University, the Israel Museum and Princeton University to name a few. Mr. Moser has exhibited internationally in both one-man and group exhibits. He is a member of the Society of Printers, Boston; an Associate of the National Academy of Design elected in 1982 & made full Academician in 1994; and was a founding trustee of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. He was awarded the Doctor of Fine Arts degree by Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts (1999), the Doctor of Humanities degree by Anna Maria College, Paxton, Massachusetts (2001), and the Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2003). From; http://www.moser-pennyroyal.com/moser-pennyroyal/Biography.html

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Justin Todd

My working life can be divided into four equal parts. I studied painting at Wimbledon and illustration at The Royal College. I started out as a historical illustrator but after ten years describing everyday life from the Stone Age to the present I was keen to escape. I approached Penguin Books and spent another ten years painting paperback covers for every imaginable subject from horror to romance. Fashions change and I had to find a new outlet, I moved into the world of Children’s classics such as “Wind In The Willows” and the “Alice Adventures” and continued there until I retired. Now my painting is purely to indulge my own fantasies.

From; http://www.osborne-allen.co.uk/scripts/artists.asp?idCategory=32

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Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne is a children's author/illustrator and lives in Kent. He was born in Sheffield in 1946, and grew up in Yorkshire. He studied graphic design at Leeds College of Art and first worked as an illustrator for medical textbooks, then as a greeting card designer. His popular book, Gorilla (1983) started out as a picture designed for a birthday card. It won a Kate Greenaway Medal and a Kurt Maschler Award in 1983. His first book, A Walk in the Park, was published in 1977. It has been followed by many other books for children he has written and illustrated, including Bear Hunt (1979); a series of books about Willy, a chimp (1984-1985); The Tunnel (1989); Zoo (1992), winner of a 1992 Kate Greenaway Medal; The Shape Game (2003), which was produced during his time as Illustrator in Residence at The Tate; Into The Forest (2004); Things I Like (2006); and most recently, Little Beauty (2008). His books often have lonely, sensitive child protagonists, and several feature gorillas. He has also retold and illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1988), King Kong (1994), and Hansel and Gretel (1981); and illustrated books for other authors, including Ian McEwan, Sally Grindley and Janni Howker. In 2000 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for services to children's literature, and in 2009 he was appointed the sixth Children's Laureate. from; http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth56A351A70f3012A836wnO179585F

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Malcolm Ashman

Malcolm was born in Bath in 1957. He attended the Somerset College of Art, though is largely self-taught. His work reflects his personal view of the South West. When painting landscapes the things that interest him are the transitory effects of light, colossal cloudscapes, immense and ephemeral, and the intricate tracks of man across the monumental structure of the land. Malcolm's ‘abstract' paintings are a development of his landscapes paintings. They deal with similar themes though they can often reference experiences that engage him but in a more rounded way, less about the look rather the total experience. They start as a series of random marks that begin to stir a memory. This recollection then guides the evolution of the piece as he tries to re-visit the spirit of place, establishing a visual shorthand that encompasses all elements. Malcolm has received seven major art awards to date and his work was chosen for the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition in 2009. He is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Exhibitions include the Royal Academy, the Victoria Art Gallery and Holburne Museum, Bath, and The Mall Galleries, London. From; http://www.bathfineart.com/artists/malcolm-ashman.php

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Helen Oxenbury

Oxenbury did not plan on becoming an illustrator when she was young. Instead, she found a talent for designing and painting scenery for plays. She began working in local theaters as a teenager, and chose to attend a college where she could study set design. At school, she met her future husband, John Burningham, who was interested in illustration and graphic design. She later followed him to Israel, where she worked as a scenery designer. After the couple returned to England, Burningham published his first book, the award-winning children's story Borka, and Oxenbury continued working in the theater. Shortly after the couple married in 1964, they had their first two children. Oxenbury left her career as a designer to care for them. "In those days it was jolly difficult to do two things, and we didn't have money for nannies," Oxenbury explained to Michele Field of Publishers Weekly. "I wanted something to do at home, and having watched John do children's books, I thought that was possible." Two of Oxenbury's first projects were illustrations for books by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Lear, known for his fanciful, colorful poems. In choosing to illustrate these works, Oxenbury found the books' humor most appealing. As she revealed in a Junior Bookshelf article, it was "the marvellous mixture of weird people in dreamlike situations surprising one by doing and saying quite ordinary and down-to-earth things one minute, and absurd, outrageous things the next" that made up her mind to take the jobs. She captured this contradictory feeling in Edward Lear's The Quangle-Wangle's Hat with pictures of strange creatures and the magical hat of many ribbons, loops, and bows. As Crispin Fisher noted in Children and Literature, "Her landscape is wide and magical, neither inviting nor repelling, but inexplicable—surely right for a Lear setting."

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Lisbeth Zwerger

Lisbeth Zwerger was born in Vienna in 1954. After studying at the Applied Arts Academy of Vienna she became an award-winning illustrator, working mostly for Michael Neugebauer. It is said that her style is similar to that of English illustrators of the 19th century.

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Iassen Ghiuselev

Iassen Ghiuselev (born 1964) is an award winning Bulgarian illustrator of many classic stories including Pinnochio, Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River. Ghiuselev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1964. He attended the School of Art in Sofia and then after a two-year period of military service studied at the National Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1990 and started work as a freelance illustrator. Ghuiselev creates cover pictures, graphics and other illustrations for some of the best-known publishers and magazines in Sofia. He also works with the magazines Vanity Fair and Vogue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iassen_Ghiuselev

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Peter Blake

From 1946 to 1951 the British painter and illustrator Peter Thomas Blake attended Gravesend Technical College and School of Art and then transfered to the Royal College of Art in London, which he left in 1956.

Peter Blake's early work is dominated by two major subjects: fantastic scenes from the world of the circus and naturalistic paintings with autobiographic elements. The imitation of the popular image world of event posters, which Blake combined with portraits, was typical of his work. Circus characters and children reading comic books are among the artist's typical motifs. In style and content both types of pictures paved the way for English Pop Art. Thanks to a Leverhulme scholarship, Peter Blake had the opportunity to travel through Europe from 1956 to 1957, where he acquainted himself with the artistic trends of the time.

In 1959, inspired by reproductions by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Blake began to paint collage-like pictures of pop musicians and filmstars and to produce assemblages made of recycled material, postcards and other items. Alongside his collages Blake also worked with the medium of imitation: Painted collages, imitated pin-up-boards and locker doors, enlarged, painted postcard motifs and painted adaptations of posters appeared. The cover design for the Beatles album "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) was one of his greatest successes. from; http://www.blake-peter.com/

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Michael Forman

Michael Foreman was born in Suffolk in 1938 and grew up near Lowestoft. He studied at Lowestoft Art School, and at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. His first children's book was published while he was still a student. After completing his studies, he travelled all over the world, making films and television commercials and doing hundreds of sketches which he later used as the inspiration for many of his books. Before becoming a full-time author and illustrator, he lectured at various Schools of Art. He has illustrated books by authors such as Dickens, Shakespeare, The Brothers Grimm, Roald Dahl and Rudyard Kiping, has designed Christmas stamps for the Post Office, and regularly contributes illustrations to American and European magazines. Michael Foreman also writes and illustrates his own books. He enjoys writing about earlier periods of history, including conflict and war, in books such as War Boy: A Country Childhood (1989), War Game (1993), and After The War Was Over (1995). The latter is about the soldiers of the First World War, was shortlisted for a Kate Greenaway Medal and won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Gold Award 6-8 years category and overall winner) in 1993. His latest books are The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Advenure (2009) and A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope (2009). From; http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authc2d9c28a02840211b9qkg2895c82

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Anne Bachelier

Anne Bachelier (b. 1949-02-20 in Louvigne du Desert, France), is a French artist and illustrator. Metamorphosis, transition, and evolution provide the common threads of the art of Anne Bachelier. The artist captivates her audience with compelling, highly imaginative images that are distinct, unique, inventive and immediately recognizable. Her metaphysical, dream-like fantasies evoke feelings simultaneously powerful, peaceful, and protective. This unique "other" world, untouched by time or place, reminds the viewer of the eternal dance of transformation and regeneration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bachelier

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John Vernon Lord

In 1986 Lord was appointed Professor of Illustration at University of Brighton and his inaugural lecture Illustrating Lear's Nonsense was published a few years later.[19] Robert Mason reviewing Lord's lecture A Journey Of Drawing An Illustration Of A Fable writes:Lord’s fastidious verbal dissection of the process of making a single pen and ink illustration, The Crow And The Sheep, over a period of 11 hours and 11 minutes on the 10th and 11th of February 1985, was intimate and unique. Its very length, and its combination of intense focus interspersed with frequent digressions – about how to avoid actually working, the tendency of Rotring pens to clog, contemporary news topics (mortgage rate increases / African famines / American defence spending…) and the maximum and minimum temperatures of the days in question (minus 3 and minus 7 degrees Fahrenheit) made the audience feel at one with the process..." In the early 1980s Lord began work on a major project that was to set the scene for much of his later art. As he entered the world of Edward Lear and became familiar with the man and his 'nonsense', the poetic qualities of Lord's own work came to the fore. Immersing himself completely in Lear had a decisive effect, not least of which was his return to 'black and white'. Lord's tendency to fill the space between the lines, already apparent in The Book of Taliesyn, was naturally akin to the art of the 'nonsense' poet who also directs the mind's eye to read 'the space between the lines'. The intent of the verse being grasped 'indirectly' from the words used. Lord's illustrations like Lear's verses took on that lightness of touch, or wistful quality, that allows a sheer 'complexity' of form to give way to the surreal. From; http://www.illustrationcupboard.com/artist_bio.aspx?aId=283&aiPage=5

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Emma Chichester Clark

Emma Chichester Clark was born in 1955 and studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, where she was taught by Quentin Blake. She lived in Ireland until 1975. She has worked as a freelance illustrator for various magazines including Cosmopolitan and The Sunday Times and has illustrated numerous book jackets. In 1988 she won the Mother Goose Award as the most exciting newcomer to children's book illustration for her illustration of Listen to This (1987), a collection of short stories edited by Laura Cecil. Since then she has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including the Melrose and Croc series, and a series of Blue Kangaroo stories, the first of which, I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! (1998) was shortlisted for the 1998 Kate Greenaway medal. http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1da9f20DD6LkW34A1BE1

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Tove Jansson

Tove Marika Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and author. For her contribution as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966.Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and then Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes. She continued to work as an artist for the rest of her life, alongside her writing.

Jansson is best known as the author of the Moomin books for children. The first such book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, appeared in 1945, though it was the next two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, that brought her fame. Starting with the semi-autobiographical Bildhuggarens dotter (Sculptor's Daughter) in 1968, she wrote six novels and five books of short stories for adults.

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Robert Ingpen

Ingpen has written or illustrated more than 100 published books. These include children's picture books and fictional stories for all ages. His nonfiction books mostly relate to history, conservation, environment and health issues. His most frequent collaborator has been the author and editor Michael Page. Ingpen has designed many postage stamps for Australia, as well as the flag and coat of arms for the Northern Territory. Ingpen has created a number of public murals in Geelong, Melbourne, Canberra and the Gold Coast in Queensland. He also has designed bronze statues, which include the Poppykettle Fountain in the Geelong Steam Packet Gardens (currently dry due to drought restrictions) and the bronze doors to the Melbourne Cricket Club. His most recent work is the design and working drawings for a tapestry, which was woven by The Victorian Tapestry Workshop, to celebrate the 150 years of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

In 1982 Ingpen designed the Dromkeen Medal for the Governors of the Courtney Oldmeadow Children's Literature Foundation. The Dromkeen is awarded annually to Australians in recognition of contributions to children's literature and Ingpen received it himself in 1989 for his own work in the field. Ingpen was illustrator for the centenary editions of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows for which he bases characterisations on contemporary figures and personalities. In 2007 Ingpen illustrated a picture book by Liz Lofthouse called Ziba Came on a Boat, which was nominated for many Australian awards including the Australian Children's Book Council Awards and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards.

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