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Nick Butterworth | |
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| Born | 24 May 1946 Kingsbury, London, England |
| Occupation | Author, illustrator |
| Education | Royal Liberty School |
| Genre | Children's fiction |
| Subject | Picture storybooks |
| Notable works | Percy the Park Keeper |
| Notable awards | Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 2005 |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
| snapper-films | |
Nick Butterworth (born 24 May 1946) is a British author and illustrator of children's books.[1][2] His picture book The Whisperer won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2005.[3]
His Percy the Park Keeper books became an animated television series of the same name starring Jim Broadbent. His Q Pootle 5 books were adapted by the BBC and broadcast on CBeebies, the channel for young children, in 2013.[4]
In the 1980s, he was a presenter on ITV children's programme Rub-a-Dub-Tub.[5]
- ^ "Nick Butterworth". HarperCollins. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
- ^ "Books by Nick Butterworth and Complete Book Reviews". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
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