Bob Graham (author / illustrator)

Bob Graham (born 1942) is an Australian children's author and illustrator. His books include Max, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award,^[1] Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child, which won the Kate Greenaway Medal,^[2] and "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.^[3]

Biography

Bob Graham, popular picture book illustrator and author, was born in Sydney in 1942. He studied drawing and painting, after graduation went to the UK, returned to Sydney in 1969 and began his career as an illustrator and designer. Between 1983 and 1995 Bob lived in Melbourne working as an illustrator for a publishing house. He now lives in the UK and works on a monthly comic-strip for a French magazine as well as continuing to produce outstanding picture books.

Bob's picture books have won numerous awards in Australia and overseas.

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^[1]
• 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^[1]
• 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.^[3]
• 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^[2] (Bob donated the monetary portion of the award to refugees)
• 2005 Aristotle shortlisted for Blue Peter Book Awards^[4]
• 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

• Bob Graham at Focus on Fiction