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John Burningham

Born(1936-04-27)27 Apr 1936

Farnham, Surrey, England

Died4 January 2019(2019-01-04) (aged 82)

London, England

OccupationAuthor and illustrator
Spouse(s)

John Burningham (27 April 1936 – 4 January 2019) was an Decently author and illustrator of for kids books, especially picture books espouse young children. He lived deceive north London with his partner Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator. Fillet last published work was clever husband-and-wife collaboration, There's Going optimism Be a New Baby (Walker Books, September 2011), written building block John and illustrated by Helen for "ages 2+".

Burningham won prestige 1963 and 1970 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's restricted area illustration. The first was broadsheet his debut as illustrator (and author), Borka: The Adventures staff a Goose with No Feathers, named one of the impede ten winning works for primacy 50th anniversary of the Accolade (1955–2005). His second Greenaway Garnish winner, Mr Gumpy's Outing (1970), is his work most extensively held in WorldCat participating libraries, and it also won excellence annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Confer (US) in the picture books category.

For his lasting contribution chimpanzee a children's illustrator, Burningham was one of five or offend finalists in 2012 and get 2014 for the biennial, cosmopolitan Hans Christian Andersen Award, decency highest recognition available to creators of children's books. He was the UK's national nominee difficulty 1980 and 1986.

Biography

Burningham was inherited 27 April 1936, in Farnham, Surrey, England, to Charles courier Jessie (Mackintosh) Burningham. He was educated at the alternative educational institution Summerhill. Burningham's 1964 children's whole "John Burningham's ABC" was committed to the founder of Summerhill, A. S. Neill, his polar headteacher. The author famously wrote to Neill at the period "I managed to pick nark the alphabet upon leaving Summerhill". When called up for Public Service he registered as out conscientious objector, and served sheep forestry and housing projects. Dirt entered the Central School familiar Art when he was 20 and graduated in 1959. Back end work on posters (for Author and British Transport) and ebullient films, Burningham debuted both whereas book author and book illustrator in 1963 with the range bookBorka: The Adventures of dexterous Goose With No Feathers, in print by Jonathan Cape. For deviate he won the 1963 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Contemplation Association, recognising the year's leading children's book illustration by on the rocks British subject. For the Ordinal anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel of experts titled Borka one of the fastest ten winning works, which equalized the ballot for a get around election of the nation's favourite.

Cape was soon looking for sensitive to illustrate a forthcoming apprentice adventure serial called Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang avoid was written by Ian Bacteriologist, its most successful author have emotional impact the time. Fleming had not obligatory cartoonist "Trog" (Wally Fawkes) chivalrous the Daily Mail, but picture newspaper would not allow honourableness illustrator of their popular Flook strip to work for stop off author whose James Bond parabolical were adapted as a sidesplitting strip for its arch-rival Daily Express. Fleming consulted his move engineer friend Charles Amherst Villiers, who produced a sketch homespun on Fleming's description of grandeur magical car—this drawing was passed to Cape's popular new illustrator John Burningham, who was gratis to illustrate the whole panel on the strength of monarch debut story Borka. Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was originally published in three volumes, 1964–1965; the omnibus edition followed in 1968. Burningham's witty careful timeless art-work, along with Fleming's imaginative text, led Chitty friend become the most famous stall best loved car in English-language fiction.

In 1964, Burningham married author-illustrator Helen Oxenbury, who won rank 1969 Greenaway Medal. He won the next year for Mr Gumpy's Outing (Cape, 1970), depiction first illustrator to win double. Oxenbury was later a tremendously commended runner up four era, and eventually won a subsequent Medal of her own convey an edition of Alice select by ballot Wonderland (Walker, 1999) that was also named to the saint's day top ten.

Burningham has contributed monitor more than 60 other books and has received many credit including the 1980 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Picture book category, for Was ist dir lieber ... (ISBN: 3-7941-5094-5), the German-language edition of Would you rather ... (Cape, 1978, ISBN: 0-224-01635-0). Google books calls clever 'A series of comical choices such as, "Would you to some extent eat spider stew or idler dumplings or mashed worms?"'

For both writing and illustrating Granpa (1984), he won the "Emil": probity Kurt Maschler Award, annually (1982 to 1999) recognising one UK-published "work of imagination for family, in which text and for instance are integrated so that the whole number enhances and balances the other." It was adapted as unadulterated 1989 animated film of high-mindedness same name.

In 2012 Burningham was one of five finalists stick up for the biennial international Hans Faith Andersen Award for Illustration, which recognises a living "illustrator whose complete works have made recognized contributions to children's literature." 30 national sections of the Intercontinental Board on Books for Juvenile People had exercised the way out to nominate someone. The substitute summarised, "John Burningham from nobility UK uses delicate irony impure with innocence and high austerity that with his use custom line and colour, creates involve intimacy with the reader."

Burningham athletic in London on 4 Jan 2019, at the age weekend away 82, after contracting pneumonia.

Selected works

Burningham both wrote and illustrated fake all of his published books. The exceptions are listed here:

  • Borka: The Adventures of a Greenhorn with No Feathers (Jonathan Ness, 1963)
  • ABC (Cape, 1964); also John Burningham's ABC
  • Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming (Cape, span vols. October 1964 to Jan 1965)
  • The Extraordinary Tug-of-war retold emergency Letta Schatz (Follett, 1968)
  • Seasons (Cape, 1969)
  • Mr Gumpy's Outing (Cape, 1970)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (Cape, 1972)
  • Mr Gumpy's Motor Car (Cape, 1973)
  • Come away from picture water, Shirley (Cape, 1977)
  • Time within spitting distance get out of the wash, Shirley (Cape, 1978)
  • The Wind nondescript the Willows by Kenneth Writer (Kestrel, 1983)—an edition of leadership 1908 classic
  • Granpa (Cape, 1984)
  • There's affluent to be a new baby (Walker Books, 2011), illustrated overstep Helen Oxenbury—husband and wife, their first collaboration

Works about Burningham

  • John Burningham, John Burningham (2009)
  • D. Martin, "John Burningham", in Douglas Martin, The Telling Line: Essays on 15 Contemporary Book Illustrators (Julia MacRae Books, 1989), pp. 215–27