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Children's Book Of The Year Award For New Illustrator
The CBCA Award for New Illustrator (previously Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration) is one of several awards presented annually by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA). The award was originally set up from a legacy made to the Victorian Branch of the CBCA by Wallace Raymond Crichton in 1985. The first award was presented in 1988. In 2019, the award transferred to the CBCA Book of the Year Awards and was renamed the CBCA Award for New Illustrator. It is managed by the national awards committee and funded by the CBCA Awards Foundation. Award category and description The CBCA Award for New Illustrator is for recognising new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration. List of CBCA Award for New Illustrator 2019– *2019 – Daniel Gray-Barnett for ''Grandma Z'' *2020 – Jasmine Seymour for ''Baby Business'' *2021 – Zeno Sworder for ''This Small Blue Dot'' *2022 – Michelle Pereira for ''The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name'' Crichton A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Book Council Of Australia
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a not for profit organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. The CBCA presents the annual Children's Book of the Year Awards to books of literary merit, recognising their contribution to Australian children's literature. History Lena Ruppert and Mary Townes Nyland, stationed in Australia with the U.S. Information Library, encouraged local teachers, librarians, booksellers and publishers to create a Children's Book Week in Australia, modelled on the annual event celebrated in the United States of America. Children's Book Week In 1945, Children's Book Week was held across Australia for the first time, with the theme of "United Through Books". Awards The Children's Book Council of Australia was founded in 1945 and the first Australian Children's Book of the Year Award was presented in 1946. At that time and until 1952, there was a single award category (now the CBCA Book of the Year: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Gamble
Kim Gamble (13 July 1952 – 19 February 2016) was an Australian illustrator of children's books. He is best known for the ''Tashi'' books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for television. Early life Kim Hunter Gamble was born in Sydney on 13 July 1952. Whilst initially working as a teacher and in other jobs, he eventually became a children's illustrator later in life. Career Gamble trained as a teacher and worked in a variety of occupations. Gamble was a self-taught artist. Beginning to illustrate stories for children at the age of 24, his first assignment in 1976 was for ''The Land Behind the World'' by Anne Spencer Parry and three sequels. In 1989, he illustrated for the '' School Magazine'', and he continued illustrating for the magazine for many years. Gamble met author Anna Fienberg, with whom he produced more than 20 books, at the ''School Magazine'' where she was the editor. He illustrated '' The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include '' The Red Tree'' and '' The Arrival''. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel ''The Arrival'' won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freya Blackwood
Freya Blackwood (born 1975) is an Australian illustrator and special effects artist. She worked on special effects for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy from 2001 to 2003 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration in 2010. Early life Blackwood was born in Edinburgh, Scotland during a tour of the United Kingdom by her parents. She grew up in Orange, New South Wales. Before becoming a full-time illustrator, she lived in New Zealand and worked on ''The Lord of the Rings'' films, specifically the special effects for the hobbits' feet. She finished a Bachelor of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney, and finished two short films during her work in the Sydney film industry. Booked Out Speakers Agency. Retrieved 2010-08-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Geddes
Jeremy Geddes is a photo-realistic painter from Wellington, New Zealand. He is widely known for the Cosmonaut series of paintings, and has illustrated for comic book covers, in collaboration with friend Ashley Wood. Geddes won the Spectrum Gold Award for his cover art for the comic, Doomed. His children's picture book, ''The Mystery of Eilean Mor'', was shortlisted for The Aurealis Awards, won the Crichton Award, and was named as one of CBC Notable Books in 2006. Geddes is also a gaming Gaming may refer to: Games and sports The act of playing games, as in: * Legalized gambling, playing games of chance for money, often referred to in law as "gaming" * Playing a role-playing game, in which players assume fictional roles * Playing ... enthusiast. References Living people Australian painters Australian children's book illustrators Year of birth missing (living people) {{australia-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Geppert
Andy Geppert is an Australian illustrator and author of children's books. He won the Crichton Award for new illustrators for his work on ''Little Big Tree'' in 2010. His follow up picture book A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ... ''Meep'' was selected as a Notable Book by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) in 2016. Early life and education Geppert was born in Nambour Queensland in 1976 and grew up on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. He studied graphic design at Design College and represented Australia at the Cannes Young Creative competition in 2001. Career He has spent 14 years in the advertising industry working across multiple roles including senior art director, head of art, and two creative director titles. In 2010 Geppert was jointly awarded th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Thanh Rudd
Van Thanh Rudd (born 1973), also known as Van Nishing, is an Australian artist and politician. Personal life Rudd was born in Nambour, Queensland, to Vietnam veteran Malcolm Rudd and Tuoi. Rudd is the nephew of former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Rudd resides in Footscray, Melbourne. Career Artwork In 2009, Rudd made an artwork critical of Connex Melbourne's parent company Veolia Environnement, which had won a contract to construct a light rail link from Jerusalem to Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The artwork was displayed at Platform Artists Group's public gallery, adjacent to Flinders Street station, a major railway station in Melbourne. Rudd won the 2017 Crichton Award for his illustrations in Maxine Beneba Clarke's '' The Patchwork Bike''.'' In January 2020 Rudd was arrested when painting his mural of Nelligen RFS volunteer Paul Parker. Anti-racism protest On Australia Day 2010, Rudd and an associate were arrested and fined $200 for "inciti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rovina Cai
Rovina Cai (born 1988) by , at TerriWindling.com; published September 7, 2017; retrieved June 15, 2022 is an Australian artist known for her work in illustrating fantasy. Recognition Cai won the World Fantasy Award—Artist in 2019 and 2021, and the 20212021 Hugo Awards Announce ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of CBCA Awards
The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards was started by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) in 1946 with one category. The awards have grown and now there are five categories in the ''Book of the Year Awards'' and numerous other awards presented annually by the National Office and CBCA branches in each State and Territory. The winner of the inaugural award received a flower, "a camellia". In more recent times the awards have been funded through Government grants (1966–1988), and lately by individual and corporation donations and sponsorships. The CBCA decided in 1995 to establish an Award Foundation to secure the funding for these awards for the future. Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards Five award categories are selected annually. They are: * CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers — for readers in their secondary years of schooling * CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers — for readers from the middle to upper primary ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Australian Literary Awards
A list of Australian literary awards and prizes: Literature * ABC Fiction Award (2005–2009) * ACT Book of the Year * ACT Writing and Publishing Awards * Ada Cambridge Prize *The Age Book of the Year – discontinued after 2012; reinstituted in 2021 * Asher Award – 2005–2017 *Australian Book Industry Awards * Australian Literature Society Gold Medal * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award * Banjo Awards – 1974–1997 * Barbara Jefferis Award * Chief Minister's NT Book Awards, originally Territory Read, from 2009 * Colin Roderick Award * David Unaipon Award * Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, established 2015 for writers from a migrant background * Fogarty Literary Award * Melbourne Prize for Literature * Miles Franklin Award * MUD Literary Prize (since 2018) * The Nib Waverley Library Award for LiteratureCurrently the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award * Ned Kelly Awards * New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards * Nita Kibble Literary Award * Patrick White Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |