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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1800.
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Malorie Blackman is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues, for example, her Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional alternative Britain to explore racism. Blackman has been the recipient of many honours for her work, including the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize.
David William Gentleman is an English artist. He studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from platform-length murals for Charing Cross Underground Station in London to postage stamps and logos.
"There's a Place" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their debut album, Please Please Me, released in March 1963. It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to McCartney–Lennon. In the United States, the song was released in July 1963 on the group's first US LP, Introducing... The Beatles, later reissued in January 1964 as Beatlemania surged there. It was also issued as a non-album single in the US, in March 1964, as the B-side to "Twist and Shout", reaching number 74 in the Billboard Hot 100.
Thames & Hudson is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, and popular culture.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
A Spaniard in the Works is a nonsense book by English musician John Lennon, first published on 24 June 1965. The book consists of nonsensical stories and drawings similar to the style of his previous book, 1964's In His Own Write. The name is a pun on the expression "a spanner in the works".
Flora Mary McDonnell, or Lady Flora Pennybacker is a British artist, illustrator and author.
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Alison Sparkes is a British children's author. She is best known for her Shapeshifter book series.
Anthony John McGowan is an English author of books for children, teenagers and adults. He is the winner of the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal for Lark.
Joanna Brooks is an American author and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. Brooks is currently the associate vice president of faculty advancement and professor of English and comparative literature. She is a frequent media commentator on faith in American life, particularly in relation to her own Mormonism. Politico named her one of 2011's "50 politicos to watch" for her Twitter feed, @askmormongirl.
Thomas Moundeford M.D. (1550–1630) was an English academic and physician, President of the London College of Physicians for three periods.
John George Sowerby (1849–1914) was an English painter and illustrator from Gateshead, and director of Ellison Glass Works, the Sowerby family business, which during the 1880s was the largest producer of pressed glass in the world. The grandson of naturalist James Sowerby, his paintings were exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts, and his children's book illustrations were generally well received.
Charlotte Voake is a Welsh children's illustrator who has won several awards including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1997.
Steve Antony is a British children's author and illustrator, who has written and illustrated seventeen picture books and two board books.
June Crebbin is a British writer for children based in Leicestershire. After she took early retirement as a primary school teacher, she wrote and published over 40 books.
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- ↑ Stephanie Merritt, "The Life of Riley", The Guardian , 15 July 2007
- 1 2 Caroline Horn, "Joanna Nadin: My so-called début" Archived 5 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine , Bookseller.com, 4 May 2007
- ↑ "The Labour Party's experts in spin are a fast-growing - and increasingly costly - breed" [ dead link ], The Independent , 17 February 2002
- ↑ "Special Advisers: Downing Street 2002" Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine , Red Star Research, red-star-research.org.uk, retrieved 18-05-2009
- ↑ "Creative Writing lecturer wins BAFTA Children's Award". Bath Spa University. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ↑ "'But you can't start a sentence with a conjunction,' primary pupil writes to children's author".
