Guy Parker-Rees (born 1959) is an illustrator and writer of children's books. [1]
Parker-Rees studied literature and philosophy at the University of York. He lives in Brighton with his wife and three children. [2]
Before becoming a children's book writer and illustrator, Parker-Rees worked as an art teacher for people with learning difficulties and as an art therapist in a social-services day center. [3]
Parker-Rees's work includes illustrating for other writers, most notably Giles Andreae, as well as creating his own children's books. His name featured on the lists of the top-fifty most-borrowed illustrators from U.K. public libraries from July 2015 to June 2016. [4]
Giraffes Can't Dance is Parker-Rees's most successful picture book, an international bestseller on amazon.co.uk [5] and number-one bestselling picture book in the United States. [6] As of March 2019, it had sold over four million copies worldwide. [7]
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Giles Andreae is a British writer and illustrator. He is the creator of the stickman poet Purple Ronnie and the humorous artist/philosopher Edward Monkton, and is the author of Giraffes Can't Dance and many other books for children.
Marie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children's writer and illustrator. She has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple Governor General's Awards, and multiple Janet Savage Blachford Prizes, among others.
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Oliver Brendan Jeffers is an Australian-born Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer. He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001. He relocated back to Northern Ireland in the early 2020s after a spell living and working in Brooklyn.
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Paul Francis Bright is an English writer, mainly of picture books and poetry for children. His stories have featured on BBC CBeebies and CITV's Bookaboo programmes. Bright has also written stories for CBeebies radio, and for the BBC Jam and BBC RaW web sites, as well as poems for school reading schemes. His picture book Quiet!, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees, was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award (2004) and I’m Not Going Out There!, illustrated by Ben Cort won the Stockport Schools’ Book Award (2007). Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch, illustrated by Michael Terry, was shortlisted for the Red House Book Award (2010). His most recent picture book, The Hole Story, with illustrations by Bruce Ingman, was shortlisted for the 2017 English 4-11 Picture Book Award, given by the English Association. Bright is one of four authors selected to write new Winnie-the-Pooh stories for ‘The Best Bear in all the World’, an official sequel to the classic stories by A. A. Milne, published in October 2016 to celebrate 90 years since the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh. Bright has appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Wigtown Book Festival. His name consistently features in the lists of the top 500 most borrowed authors from UK public libraries.
Anthony Robert Mitton was an English writer. Originally a primary school teacher, he then became a children's poetry writer.
