Bob Graham (author / illustrator)

Bob Graham (author / illustrator)

Bob Graham (b. 1942) is an Australian children's author and illustrator. His books include "Max", which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award, [ [http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/ Nestlé Children's Book Prize] ] "Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child", which won the Kate Greenaway Medal, [ [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards] ] and ""Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate" which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. [ [http://www.hbook.com/bghb/default.asp Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards] ]

Biography

Many of his books have won Children's Book Council of Australia awards. [ [http://www.cbc.org.au/ Children's Book Council of Australia] ] A scene from "Greetings from Sandy Beach" appeared on a 1996 Australia Post stamp; one in a series of four stamps commemorating Australian children's books. Bob's books are found in many of Australia's primary school and public libraries and are often the Book of the Month in library-based reading programmes such as The Little Big Book Club. [ [http://www.thelittlebigbookclub.com.au The Little Big Book Club] ] Graham's most recent book, "Dimity Dumpty: The story of Humpty's little sister", received positive reviews in the Australian press and was listed by the Children's' Book Council of Australia as a Notable Book of 2007.

Awards and nominations

*1982 Illustrated the music and lyric booklet for ABC Radio's "Sing" primary school music broadcast, a much-desired commission
*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
*1990 "Grandad's Magic" was honoured in 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
*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
*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
*1998 "Queenie the Bantam" was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Books category
*1999 "Buffy - An Adventure Story" won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award [ [http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/ Nestlé Children's Book Prize] ]
*2000 "Buffy - An Adventure Story" won the Tasmanian government's CYBER [Children's Yearly Best Ever Reads] 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
*2000 "Max" won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award [ [http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/ Nestlé Children's Book Prize] ]
*2001 "Max" was honoured in Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Early Childhood category
*2002 ""Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate" won Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Early Childhood category
*2002 ""Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate" won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. [ [http://www.hbook.com/bghb/default.asp Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards] ]
*2002 "Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child" was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Book category
*2002 "Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child" won the Kate Greenaway Medal [ [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards] ] (Bob donated the monetary portion of the award to refugees)
*2005 "Aristotle" shortlisted for Blue Peter Book Awards [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/bookclub/awards/ Blue Peter Book Awards 2005] ]
*2005 "Tales from the Waterhole" was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Early Childhood category

References

External links

* [http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/authors/at7.htm#graham Bob Graham at Focus on Fiction]


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