Absolutely, best-ever snippets of news

June 21, 2009

All from the Books : Children and Teenagers pages of the Guardian:

… her name is not Lauren. “That is true,” she admits when I ask about it. Her real name is?


What makes Eric Carle tick?

March 15, 2009

Find out in this interview with him from The Guardian.

The path from Carle’s upbringing in Nazi Germany to the most beloved of children’s authors and illustrators is one that, when he cares to indulge in self-analysis, he admits makes a certain sense. The link between the deprivations of his early years and the slant of his artwork, so bursting with light and joy and exuberant colour, is such that, he says, if he had grown up in greater comfort he would probably be “pumping gas” these days.


Vale Kilmeny Niland

February 28, 2009

Judith Ridge has alerted readers of her Misrule blog to the death, announced in the Sydney Morning Herald,  of illustrator Kilmeny Niland. The illustrator was the daughter of Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland and Deborah’s twin.

Kilmeny Niland’s sudden death is a great loss to Australian children’s literature.