Kerry Argent
| Kerry Argent | |
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| Born |
1960 Angaston |
| Nationality | Australian |
Kerry Argent (born 1960) is an Australian Illustrator of children's books.
Life
Argent was born in Angaston in South Australia. She came to notice when she was part of the new wave of children's books published when Bob Hawke was the Prime Minister.[1] She illustrated a counting book written by her then partner Rod Trinca called "One Woolly Wombat" as part of her graduate course. This book became "Best Children's Book" in 1985 when it won a Whitley Award by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.[2]
She has illustrated books by Australian children's writer's Mem Fox, Thelma Catterwell and Margaret Wild. Her illustrations for Sofie Laguna's Too Loud Lily gained the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year for early childhood in 2003.[2]
Works
- One Woolly Wombat. Text: Rod Trinca
- Ruby Roars. by Margaret Wild
- Nighty Night. Text: Margaret Wild
- Thank you, Santa. Text: Margaret Wild
- A Bush Birthday. Text: Eleanor Nilsson
- Sebastian Lives in a Hat. Text: Thelma Catterwell[2]
- Derek the Dinosaur. Text: Mary Blackwood
- Wombat Divine. by Mem Fox
- Sleepy Bears. Text: Mem Fox
- Too Loud Lily. by Sofie Laguna
- Gotcha! by Gail Jorgensen
References
- ↑ Sheahan-Bright, edited by Craig Munro & Robyn (2006). Paper empires : a history of the book in Australia 1946-2005 ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press. p. 300. ISBN 0702235733. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kerry Argent, Scholastic.com, retrieved 9 November 2014
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