From Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature A prolific illustrator of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, S. is best known for his detailed pen-and-ink drawings for volumes of children's stories and poems written by a variety of authors.
From The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English British artist. Like his contemporary, Aubrey Beardsley, Rackham started his working life in an insurance office and, also like Beardsley, he was influenced by Japanese prints and the Pre-Raphaelites.
From Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature The Greenaway Medal is given for the most distinguished work in illustration of children's books first published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
From Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature The Carnegie Medal is given for a children's book of outstanding merit written in English and first published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature Barrie figures significantly in English fiction and drama from the Victorian and modernist periods. His reputation has been more erratic than the reputation of some of his contemporaries.
Writer of children’s stories, born in Berkshire, S England, UK. Educated in Reading, he was a television cameraman (1947–66) before becoming a full-time writer.
English writer; an Oxford mathematics don who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876).
From Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), was the third of four children of a rather unsuccessful lawyer, reputedly descended from Robert the Bruce.
English writer of plays, books for children, and novels; best-known works include verse in When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927) and the stories Winnie-The-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
From Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature Nicknamed “Daisy,” Nesbit was the youngest of six children (although one authority said she was the youngest of five).
From The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English British writer who was born in Norwich and read English at Oxford, where he subsequently settled.
