Gavin Bishop

Teddy One-Eye (eBook, ePUB)

The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

And, my oh my, what a WONDERFUL book!!!!!!! I cried non-stop from Chapter 22 . . . Mr Bishop should be pounded on the back for creating such a delightful book. A wee classic in the making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775537281
• Artikelnr.: 41824994

Autorenporträt

Gavin Bishop is a highly acclaimed children's book author and illustrator. Born in Invercargill, Gavin graduated from the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts with an honours degree in painting. He taught art at Linwood High School and at Christ's College in Christchurch. He won the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2000, as well as numerous fellowships and national book awards. His book Weaving Earth and Sky won the non-fiction section and the Book of the Year Award of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2003. He has won the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration four times: Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant (1981); Kiwi Moon (2006); Rats! (2008); and There was a Crooked Man (2010). Among his successful partnerships has been that with writer Joy Cowley, with whom he won the Best in Junior Fiction and Book of the Year at the 2008 NZ Post Children's Book Awards for Snake and Lizard. The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration was established in 2009 to encourage emergent illustrators and to acknowledge Gavin's contribution to the writing and illustrating of children's picture books. In 2013 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors.