Bob Graham (author/illustrator)

Bob Graham
Born
Robert Donald Graham

(1942-10-20) 20 October 1942 (age 81)
NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)Author and illustrator
Notable workMax
Awards

Robert Donald Graham, better known as Bob Graham (born 20 October 1942), is an Australian author and illustrator of picture books, primarily for very young children.[1]

Graham won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the UK, for the picture book Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child (Walker Books), which he both wrote and illustrated. (He donated the £5000 cash prize to refugees.)[2][3] The story features a young girl who finds a tiny fairy family "in cement and weeds", contrary to her father's teaching.[2] He also won a 2000 Smarties Prize, ages category 0–5 years, for Max[4] and the 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Picture Book, for "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate.[5]

For his contribution as a children's illustrator, Graham was Australia nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.[6]

  1. ^ Erin Peters (April 2012). "Bob Graham" Archived 3 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 50(2), p. 9. doi:10.1353/bkb.2012.0058
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  4. ^ "Nestlé Children's Book Prize" Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Booktrust. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards: Winners and Honor Books 1967 to present". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
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