Bob Graham (author / illustrator)
Bob Graham (born 1942) is an Australian author and illustrator of picture books, primarily for very young children.
Graham won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the U.K., for the picture book Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child (Walker Books), which he both wrote and illustrated. (He donated the £5000 cash prize to refugees.)[1][2] The story features a young girl who finds a tiny fairy family "in cement and weeds", contrary to her father's teaching.[1] He also won a 2000 Smarties Prize, ages category 0–5 years, for Max[3] and the 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Picture Book, for "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate.[4]
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Biography[edit]
Bob Graham was born in Sydney in 1942. He studied drawing and painting, went to the UK after graduation, returned to Sydney in 1969, and there began his career as an illustrator and designer. Between 1983 and 1995 he lived in Melbourne working as an illustrator for a publishing house.[which?] He now lives in the UK and works on a monthly comic-strip for a French magazine[which?] as well as continuing to produce picture books.
In 1982 he illustrated the music and lyrics booklet for ABC Radio's Sing primary school music broadcast, a much-desired commission.[citation needed]
WorldCat reports from participating libraries that his most widely held work is How to Heal a Broken Wing, a 36-page picture book about a city boy who rescues an injured bird; published in 2008 by both Walker and its U.S. division Candlewick Press. WorldCat libraries hold editions in Scottish Gaelic, French, Spanish, Catalan, and Chinese.[5]
Awards[edit]
Overseas, Graham has won three annual book awards for picture books.
- Max won the 2000 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, ages 0–5 years[3]
- "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate won the 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Picture Book[4]
- Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal[1][2]
- Runners up, etc.
- Buffy - An Adventure Story was silver runner up for the 1999 Smarties Prize, ages 0–5 years[3]
- Aristotle, written by Dick King-Smith, made the shortlist for the 2005 Blue Peter Book Award, Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud[6]
In Australia[edit]
- Awards
- 1986, First there was Frances won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
- 1988, Crusher is Coming won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
- 1991, Greetings from Sandy Beach won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
- 1993, Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
- 1993, Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten was a joint winner of The Australian Psychological Society's biannual Children's Peace Literature Award
- 2000, Buffy - An Adventure Story won the Tasmanian government's CYBER [Children's Yearly Best Ever Reads] award, Picture Books category
- 2002, Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate won Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Early Childhood category
- 2012, A Bus Called Heaven won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Book category
- Runners up, etc.
- 1990, Grandad's Magic was honoured in Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
- 1992, Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten was highly commended in the Australian federal government's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Human Rights Awards, Children's' Literature category
- 1998, Queenie the Bantam was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
- 2000, Buffy - An Adventure Story was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
- 2001, Max was honoured in Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Early Childhood category
- 2002, Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Book category
- 2005, Tales from the Waterhole was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Early Childhood category
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c (Greenaway Winner 2002). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ a b (directory, 2003 CILIP Awards press releases). CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
• Four press releases 11 July 2003 pertain to Graham. See also the earlier release 2 May 2003, "... Judges Comments on the Shortlist". Unfortunately, the primary release "Bob Graham Wins CILIP Greenaway Medal" is mis-linked to the next year's announcement, as of 2012-07-18. - ^ a b c "Nestlé Children's Book Prize". Booktrust. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
- ^ a b "Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards: Winners and Honor Books 1967 to present". The Horn Book. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
- ^ "Formats and Editions of How to heal a broken wing". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-31.
- ^ Blue Peter Book Awards 2005. [dead link]
External links[edit]
- Bob Graham at Focus on Fiction
- Bob Graham at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child)
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