James Mayhew
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James Mayhew BA (born 1964 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is a well known English illustrator and author of children's books.
Brought up in Blundeston, Suffolk, on leaving school Mayhew studied illustration at Lowestoft School of Art from 1983 to 1984, and then at Maidstone College of Art, graduating BA in 1987 with first class honours. He has illustrated 50 books and written 20 more [1]. In 1994 he received the New York Times Award for one of the ten best illustrated books of the year for The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams, written by Jenny Koralek. Mayhew's books have been published all over the world, including Japan, Korea, Germany, France, Spain and Scandinavia and America. He has held exhibitions of his work in Hertfordshire, Cambridge, London, Paris and New York.[2]
Having a great interest in Russian opera, Mayhew has illustrated a number of programmes for the Kirov Opera in St Petersburg, and in 1998 was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York to design a series of tee-shirts for the Kirov's season there. Mayhew also teaches illustration to degree students at Anglia Polytechnic University.[3]
Mayhew lives in Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire with his wife and son.
[edit] Books written or illustrated by Mayhew include:
Katie and the Bathers
Katie and the Dinosaurs
Katie and the Mona Lisa
Katie and the Sunflowers
Katie in London
Katie Meets the Impressionists
Katie's Picture Show
Katie and the Spanish Princess
Who Wants a Dragon? (Illustrated by Lindsey Gardiner)
Tales of Ghostly Ghouls and Haunting Horrors (Written by Martin Waddell)
Boneless and the Tinker
Death and the Neighbours
Gallows Hill
Soft Butler's Ghost
