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Vocabulary > Arts > Books > Children
Clever
cats.
London:T.Nelson & Sons,
[1881].
Shelfmark:
LB.31.b.180
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/chilgallery1.html
children's literature / books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2011/sep/27/book-doctor-english-books
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1448965,00.html
children's books
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/notable-childrens-books-of-2011.html
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2011/05/13/arts/artsspecial/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/11/07/arts/artsspecial/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/11/08/books/authors/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/24/obituaries/roald-dahl-writer-74-is-dead-best-sellers-enchanted-children.html
children's books > 7 and under
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/childrens-books-7-and-under
children's books > 8-12 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/childrens-books-8-12-years
Ladybird Books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/jun/14/ladybird-books-new-age
The best children's books ever
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/12/best-childrens-books-ever
Puffin's 70 best books for children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2010/may/06/puffin-70-best-books-children
The Guardian children's fiction prize
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/08/michelle-paver-guardian-children-fiction-prize
children's author
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1580373,00.html
children's writer
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/07/arts/07cndlengle.php
Michelle Paver
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/08/michelle-paver-guardian-children-fiction-prize
Theresa Breslin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/02/theresa-breslin-bringing-past-life
Francesca Simon > Horrid Henry series
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/francesca-simon-top-10-antiheroes
Philip Reeve
2008
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2287541,00.html
children's laureate > 2011 > Julia Donaldson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/07/gruffalo-julia-donaldson-new-children-s-laureate
Booktrust teenage prize
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booktrustteenageprize
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/01/gregory-hughes-booktrust-teenage-prize
Carnegie Medal for children's books
2008
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2287541,00.html
Kate Greenaway Medal
2008
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2287541,00.html
picture book
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2010/sep/21/raymond-briggs
Helen Oxenbury: books and babies - audio slideshow
Award-winning illustrator Helen Oxenbury
explains how parenthood propelled her into drawing,
why she changes her style from book to book,
and how childhood memories of the Beano
inspired the main character in her latest book, There's Going to be a Baby
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/audioslideshow/2011/may/03/helen-oxenbury-audio-slideshow
Judith Kerr: 'I was enchanted by the strangeness of cats' - video
Author and illustrator Judith Kerr discusses her drawing life,
the genesis of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the Mog stories,
the anniversary of her childhood memoir, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
- and her new book, a "jolly" take on widowhood
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of When Hitler Stole Pink
Rabbit,
Judith will be appearing for an interview
at 6pm at The New End Theatre in
Hampstead, on 26 January.
All profits will go to the Holocaust Educational Trust to mark Holocaust
Memorial Day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2011/jan/20/judith-kerr-tiger-who-came-to-tea
Best new illustrators award - audio slideshow
Judge and children's laureate Anthony Browne looks through
some of the winners of this year's Booktrust best new illustrators award
and
talks about what makes a great picturebook
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/
audioslideshow/2011/mar/22/best-new-illustrators-awards-audio-slideshow
The 10 best illustrated children’s books
November 2010
The finest picture books for youngsters
as chosen by The Observer's Kate Kellaway
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2010/nov/28/ten-best-illustrated-childrens-books
John Carl Schoenherr, children’s book illustrator
1935-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/arts/15schoenherr.html
Madeleine L'Engle
1918-2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/07/arts/07cndlengle.php
Helen Cresswell
author and television scriptwriter
1934-2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1580373,00.html
Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein
(Antonia Forest)
children's writer 1915-2003
http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1102909,00.html
Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton 1897-1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eblyton.htm
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1288601,00.html
children's poetry
Historical survey of children's literature in the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/chilhist.html
Jean Adamson: Living with Topsy and Tim
Fifty years after Topsy and Tim first clambered onto
bookshelves,
Jean Adamson talks about how she and her late husband quit their jobs
to create these stories of ordinary children,
draws the duo for us and meets their latest incarnation as an iPhone app
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2010/oct/28/topsy-tim-jean-adamson
British Library > Gallery of images from historic children's books
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/chilgallery.html
Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2010
USA
http://events.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2010/best-illustrated-childrens-books-2010/list.html
Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/20091108_best-illustrated_gg/list.html
A publisher's postbag – in pictures
During his 30-year career as a children's book publisher,
Klaus Flugge received almost 100 beautifully illustrated envelopes by artists
including Posy Simmonds, Tony Ross and Axel Scheffler.
Here he introduces some of his favourites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/apr/21
/illustrated-envelopes-posy-simmonds-axel-scheffler-tony-ross-david-mckee#/?picture=373125672&index=0
illustrator > Raymond Briggs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/raymond-briggs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/01/father-christmas-raymond-briggs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2010/sep/21/raymond-briggs
illustrator > Freya Blackwood
AUS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2010/jun/24/kate-greenaway-medal-freya-blackwood
illustrator > Quentin Blake
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quentin-blake
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2010/may/29/guardian-hay-festival-quentin-blake
illustrator > Angus McBride
1931-2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2088676,00.html
illustrator >
Walter Crane
1845-1915
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Crane
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/crane/drawings/1.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jcrane.htm
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/chilgallery1.html
Jessie Willcox Smith > The
Water-Babies USA
1916
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/waterbabies/
illustrated book
Emily Gravett, children's illustrator
2008
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2287541,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/jun/26/art.booksforchildrenandteenagers?picture=335286657
story
character
villain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2011/sep/28/favourite-villain
short story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/02/summer.short.stories
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2231069,00.html
bedtime stories
2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2133168,00.html
tell me a story
storyteller
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-01-30-sidney-sheldon-obit_x.htm
Eileen Hilda Colwell
librarian, writer and storyteller
1904-2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,798392,00.html
be marketed as a children's story
children's fiction
http://books.guardian.co.uk/childrenslibrary/story/0,6194,1374248,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/childrenandteens/story/0,6000,1292836,00.html
children's books
children's writers
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1410508,00.html
storytellers for young people
The story of Jack and the giants.
Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
London: Cundall & Addey, 1851.
Shelfmark:
12430.g.3
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The babes in the wood.
Illustrated
by Randolph Caldecott.
London: G. Routledge, [1878?].
Shelfmark: 12805.k.61
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/chilgallery1.html
Roald Dahl, Writer, 74, Is Dead;
Best Sellers Enchanted
Children
November 24, 1990
The New York Times
By WILLIAM H. HONAN
Roald Dahl, the best-selling British writer of macabre children's stories as
well as books for adults and films, died Friday at John Radcliffe Hospital in
Oxford, England. He was 74 years old and lived in Great Missenden,
Buckinghamshire, between Oxford and London.
He had been admitted to the hospital on Nov. 12 with an undisclosed infection,
said his agent, Murray Pollinger.
Mr. Dahl wrote 19 children's books, nine collections of short stories, and
numerous screenplays and television scripts. He adapted one of his best-known
children's stories, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," for the screen under
the title "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Adults as the Enemy
The key to his success, he frequently said, was to conspire with children
against adults.
"It's the path to their affections," he said in an interview earlier this year
with the London newspaper The Independent. "It may be simplistic, but it is the
way. Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy. The adult is the enemy of the
child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is born
is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all."
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Llandaff, South Wales, to Norwegian parents. He
was educated at Repton, a private school in Derbyshire, England, and joined the
Royal Air Force when World War II broke out. After training as a fighter pilot,
he fought in Libya, Greece and Syria.
When he crash-landed his biplane in the Libyan desert, he suffered a fractured
skull, spinal injuries and a smashed hip. His injuries required a hip
replacement and two spinal operations, the last in 1947.
In the sort of macabre gesture that would later characterize his writing, he
preserved the end of a femur that surgeons had removed and used it as a
paperweight in his writing studio. Stories for His Own Children
It was the writer C. S. Forester, Mr. Dahl once explained to an interviewer, who
started him on a literary career. Forester suggested that he write about being
shot down in the desert. "Within 10 days," Mr. Dahl said, "I got a check for
$1,000 from The Saturday Evening Post."
In 1953, Mr. Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal. Ms. Neal, who won an
Academy Award in 1963, suffered a series of brain hemorrhages in 1965, and later
credited Mr. Dahl with helping her through her slow, much-publicized recovery.
He began writing stories for their children in 1960. The couple were divorced in
1983, and Mr. Dahl remarried.
Many of his books became international best sellers, and Mr. Dahl, a tall,
angular figure who often sported a wry grin, became inundated with letters from
children from around the world.
Apart from children's books, his preoccupation with greed, revenge and the dark
side of human nature found expression in adult books like "Someone Like You,"
"Kiss Kiss" and "Switch Bitch."
Besides "Willy Wonka," his screenplays included "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and a
James Bond film, "You Only Live Twice." Ideas From the Mundane
Mr. Dahl did not like to talk about the source of his inspiration. "My ideas
occur basically at my desk," he used to say. Or he would talk about superficial
promptings like meeting the writer Ian Fleming at a dinner party, joking about
the toughness of the lamb served. Later he wrote the story "Lamb to the
Slaughter," about a woman who clubs her husband to death with a frozen leg of
lamb, then roasts the lamb and serves it to the detectives who have come to
search for the murder weapon. The story later was made into a television play by
Alfred Hitchcock.
Mr. Dahl's reticence led some critics and interviewers to speculate that his
fascination with the macabre derived from his war injuries. The English critic
Michael Billington guessed that the writer's preoccupation with revenge and
sadomasochistic relationships arose from the lashing and other forms of
sanctioned brutality Mr. Dahl experienced while a pupil at an English private
school. Mr. Dahl described such treatment in clinical detail in his story "Lucky
Break." Livestock in the Afternoon
Settled into a writing career, he lived on a farm where he raised livestock and
bred greyhounds. His routine was to write from 10 A.M. until noon, spend the
afternoon tending his animals and return to his writing again from 4 to 6 P.M.
His writing was far from effortless. He commonly spent six months working on a
single short story.
In 1982, when the British Parliament was in an uproar over the fact that a
prowler had sneaked into Buckingham Palace and sat on Queen Elizabeth's bed for
10 minutes before being discovered, one of Mr. Dahl's books was suspected of
being the inspiration.
He had recently sent his publishers "The B.F.G.," a children's book about a Big
Friendly Giant who kidnaps a girl from an orphanage and deposits her in the
Queen's bedroom "with the Queen herself asleep in there behind the curtain not
more than five yards away."
But Mr. Dahl was soon absolved of responsibility when it was determined that his
book had been circulated only within the publishing industry. The perpetrator of
the actual break-in could not have been prompted by the book, one editor said,
"unless he's a reader for the Book-of-the-Month Club."
However unjustified, the suspicion was characteristic of some of the negative
reaction to Mr. Dahl's work. Not a few critics denounced his books as ugly,
antisocial, brutish and antifeminist.
Mr. Dahl scoffed at them, remarking: "I never get any protests from children.
All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children
like."
He is survived by his second wife, Felicity Ann Crosland, and three children
from his marriage to Miss Neal: a son, Theo, and two daughters, Tessa and
Ophelia. A third daughter, Olivia, died in 1962.
Roald Dahl, Writer, 74,
Is Dead; Best Sellers Enchanted Children, NYT, 24.11.1990,
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/24/obituaries/roald-dahl-writer-74-is-dead-best-sellers-enchanted-children.html
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