Adrienne Kennaway (born 1945,

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) is an illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She won the 1987

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from the

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, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a

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, a background that informed her early work, such as ''Game Park Holiday'' (1967) and ''The Elephant's Heart and other stories'' (1968), which she illustrated as Adrienne Moore. Those two 38-page picture books were written by William Lewis Radford and published by East Africa Publishing House of

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in the East African Readers Library series; the Library of Congress Subject Heading is "English language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—African". The US Library of Congress catalogues twelve books she illustrated as "Adrienne Moore" from 1966 to 1972. Kennaway became notably successful with animal folk-tales retold by Mwenye Hadithi, portraying African wildlife with vivid watercolour pictures. The first was ''Greedy Zebra'' (1984); according to one library summary: "Relates how the animals of the world, once all a dull color, acquired their furs and spots and stripes and horns, and how Zebra's greedy appetite caused him to get his particular coloring." The Greenaway Medal recognised one of those picture books, ''Crafty Chameleon'', published by

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in 1987. The story shows how

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uses craft to "gets the better of" Leopard and Crocodile. Kennaway's later work has covered animal tales and natural history from across the world, as both illustrator and writer. She now resides in

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, Ireland.

Selected works

Five of the picture books written by Mwenye Hadithi are Kennaway's five works most widely held (catalogued) in

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participating libraries. * ''Game Park Holiday'' (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1967), by William Lewis Radford * ''The Elephant's Heart and other stories'' (EAPH, 1968), by Radford"Game park holiday"
Library of Congress Catalog record."The elephant's heart, and other stories"
LCC record. Retrieved 2012-11-28. * Gagg, J. C. ''Making This Book'' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978). Illustrations by Adrienne Kennaway. ;By Mwenye Hadithi, illustrated by Adrienne Kennaway Except the most recent, these picture books were published by Little, Brown (US, first edition) and

(UK). * ''Greedy zebra'' (1984) * ''Hot hippo'' (1986) * ''Crafty chameleon'' (1987) * ''Tricky tortoise'' (1988) * ''

Lazy Lion ''Lazy Lion'' is an African animal story, written by Mwenye Hadithi and illustrated by Adrienne Kennaway, about a lion who wanted a house to keep him dry from the big rain that was coming. It was published in November 1990, by Little, Brown. Plo ...

'' (1990) * ''Baby baboon'' (1993) * ''Hungry hyena'' (1994) * ''Laughing giraffe'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008) ;Related Two more picture books with different writers were also published by Little, Brown in the US, with different publishers in the UK * ''Awful aardvark'' (1989) * ''Curious clownfish'' (1990), by Eric Maddern

As writer and illustrator

* ''Bushbaby'' (Little, Brown, 1991) * ''Little elephant's walk'' (HarperCollins, 1992)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kennaway, Adrienne New Zealand children's writers New Zealand women illustrators New Zealand children's book illustrators New Zealand women children's writers Kate Greenaway Medal winners 1945 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)

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Selected works

As writer and illustrator

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