Alternatively, readers won’t fail to note that this small book, illustrated with gentle soy-ink drawings and featuring an adult-child bear duo engaged in various sedentary and lively pursuits, could just as easily be about human parent- (or grandparent-) child pairs: some of the softly colored illustrations depict scenarios that are more likely to occur within a home and/or other family-oriented setting. However, the voice could equally be that of an adult, because who can’t look back upon teachers or other early mentors who gave of themselves and offered their pupils so much? Indeed, some of the self-aware, self-assured expressions herein seem perhaps more realistic as uttered from one who’s already grown. This gentle ode to a teacher’s skill at inspiring, encouraging, and being a role model is spoken, presumably, from a child’s viewpoint. I also visited schools and libraries all over Britain to give talks about my work, and for the last three years have worked as a part time teaching assistant, helping children who are new to English.A paean to teachers and their surrogates everywhere. I have taught illustration at Harrow, Barnet, West Herts and Croydon Colleges of Art.
I have illustrated for JACKANORY and JACKANORY PLAYHOUSE as well. I have also illustrated books for many other authors: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Geoffrey Trease, James Reeves, Adel Geras, Jamila Gavin and Robert Nye. The BBC and Channel 4 have made three of these books into short animated films for Children's TV - What Made Tiddalik Laugh, Tortoise's Dream, and The Tiger Child. One of these - How the Birds Changed Their Feathers, was commended for the KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL.
Over the past 40 years I have worked on my own series of picture books - FOLK TALES OF THE WORLD, which I retold and illustrated. Ideas for my picture books have come from myths, legends, folk tales, fairy stories, folk songs and oral poetry. I love traditional stories of all kinds and from any country throughout the world. I then became a freelance illustrator, and had my first book published when I was 22. When I was 17 I went to Hornsey College of Art for five years, leaving with a first class degree. I was born in London and have lived and worked there ever since. Lines in the Sand (One poem + one illustration) – Francis Lincoln The Animal Wrestlers – Cambridge University Press The Story of Running Water – Cambridge University Press The Chinese New Year – Cambridge University Press Monkey and the Water Dragon – Blackie, then Puffin How Stories Came into the World – Blackie Who Will Be the Sun – Blackie, then Puffin
The Wizard Punchkin – Blackie, then Puffin How Rabbit Stole The Fire – Blackie, then Puffin What made Tiddalik Laugh – Blackie, then Puffin How the Birds Changed their Feathers (Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal) – Blackie, then Puffin Sir Gawain and the Loathly Damsel – Macmillan
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