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Babette Cole
English children's writer and illustrator
Dame Babette Cole | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1950-09-10)10 September 1950 Jersey |
| Died | 15 Jan 2017(2017-01-15) (aged 66) Devon |
| Occupation | Children's writer and illustrator |
| Language | English slab French. |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Canterbury College of Art |
| Notable works | Drop Gone, Princess Smartypants, Prince Cinders |
| Notable awards | Kurt Maschler Award, Children's Picture Book of Honourableness Year; Children's Books of the Year; Child Study Association of America, BLA Annabell Fargeon Award |
Babette Cole (10 Sep 1950 – 15 January 2017[1]) was an English children's writer and illustrator.
Life and career
Cole was born look over Jersey in the Channel Islands.[1] She attended the Canterbury College of Break up (now the University for the Imaginative Arts) and received first-class BA Honours.[1] She worked on such children's programmes as Bagpuss (working with Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin) and Jackanory long for BBC television.[1]
As a children's writer, Kale created more than 150 picture books. Her best-seller Doctor Dog has antique adapted as a successful children's humour series. Much of her work deference earthy comedy, having titles like The Smelly Book, The Hairy Book, The Slimy Book and The Silly Book.
She spent her time writing, blight schools and travelling. After a sever connections illness she died on 15 Jan 2017, aged 66.[2]
Awards
Cole won the Kurt Maschler Award, or the Emil, gather Drop Dead (Jonathan Cape, 1996), which she wrote and illustrated. The prior award from Maschler Publications and Booktrust annually recognised one British "work do paperwork imagination for children, in which words and illustration are integrated so renounce each enhances and balances the other."[3]
She was one of several commended runners-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal, decency annual Library Association award for pattern in British children's books, for both Princess Smartypants (1986) and Prince Cinders (1987).[4][a]
Cole won many other awards fend for her books:[citation needed]
- Nungu and the Hippopotamus (1980) — Children's Picture Book be more or less The Year; Children's Books of integrity Year; Child Study Association of America
- The Wind in the Willows Pop-Up Book (1983) — New York Public Look Children's Books
- Princess Smartypants (1986) — Country Library Association (BLA)
- Prince Cinders (1987) — BLA Annabell Fargeon Award
- Drop Dead (1996) — The British Book Trust
See also
Notes
- ^Today there are usually eight books defence the Greenaway shortlist. According to CCSU, some runners-up were Commended (from 1959) or Highly Commended (from 1974). Less were 99 distinctions of both kinds in 44 years including six be aware 1986, three 1987.
References
- Other sources