Jez alborough biography definition

Alborough, Jez

SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Personal

Born November 13, , in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England; son of John Warmen (an accountant) and Cecily (a librarian; maiden name, Gathercole) Alborough; married Rikke Buhl (a therapist), July 18, Education: Norwich School of Art, degree in graphic design, Religion: "I am religious but have no religion."

Addresses

Home&#x; Nottingham House, Shorts Gardens, London WC2H 9AX, England.

Career

Writer and illustrator.

Awards, Honors

Runner-up, Mother Goose Award, , for Bare Bear; Graphics for Children Prize (with others), Bologna Children's Book Fair, , for The Great Games Book; highly commended book citation, Kate Greenaway Medal, British Library Association, , for Fix-It Duck.

Writings

FOR CHILDREN; SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Bare Bear, Knopf (New York, NY),

Running Bear, Knopf (New York, NY),

Willoughby Wallaby, Walker Books (London, England),

The Grass Is Greener, A. & C. Black (London, England), , published as The Grass Is Always Greener, Dial (New York, NY),

Esther's Trunk, Walker Books (London, England),

The Tale of Hillary Hiccup, Macmillan (London, England),

Cupboard Bear,

Jez Alborough () Biography

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Personal, Career, Honors Awards, Writings, Adaptations, Sidelights

SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born , in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England; Education: Norwich School of Art, degree in graphic design, Religion: "I am religious but have no religion."

Runner-up, Mother Goose Award, , for Bare Bear; Graphics for Children Prize (with others), Bologna Children's Book Fair, , for The Great Games Book; highly commended book citation, Kate Greenaway Medal, British Library Association, , for Fix-It Duck.

FOR CHILDREN; SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Bare Bear, Knopf (New York, NY),

Running Bear, Knopf (New York, NY),

Willoughby Wallaby, Walker Books (London, England),

The Grass Is Greener, A. & C. Black (London, England), , published as The Grass Is Always Greener, Dial (New York, NY),

Esther's Trunk, Walker Books (London, England),

The Tale of Hillary Hiccup, Macmillan (London, England),

Cupboard Bear, Walker Books (London, England),

Beaky, Houghton (Boston, MA), , reprinted as Hello, Beaky, Walker Books (London, England),

Archibald, Macmillan (London, England),

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Jez Alborough is the author and illustrator of over 45 books for children. His Eddy and the Bear trilogy (which began with the much-loved Where's My Teddy in ) has sold nearly four and a half million copies and was made into an award-winning animated television series.

Duck in the Truck (published in ) heralded the start of another bestselling series, this time featuring the irrepressible Duck and his three friends - Frog, Goat and Sheep. There are currently nine books in the Duck series and million copies have been sold.

In Jez created Hug - a powerful and touching book of only three words about a baby chimpanzee called Bobo who loses his Mom. Oprah Winfrey raved about it on her show when she chose it for her recommended reading list while Richard Curtis (the writer and director of Four Weddings and a Funeral) selected it as one of his ‘Best Books’, calling it ‘classic family drama which holds up well next to Jez’s other masterpieces.’ Bobo went on to star in two more classics; Tall ( which along with Hug won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award ) and Yes. The series has sold million copies.

Jez’s latest publication is Nat the Cat's Sunny Smile, the

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Jez is the author and illustrator of 48 books for children. In he published The Story of 'You' his first book for adults, the first in a series called Life Beyond Personality. He says: "We enter this world as pure Oneness, (what I call our ‘original state of Being’) but we lose this as we become identified with our Personality. In that identification, the Stillness and Love of our Original State is overshadowed by the suffering of the Personality.

"Our Personality creates its own dream from the deep-seated beliefs and emotions it harbours; a dream that can be full of emotional distress, over-thinking and the constant investment in a future which never quite delivers on the belief: ‘When I get this I’ll be happy.’ The Story of ‘You’ suggJez is the author and illustrator of 48 books for children. In he published The Story of 'You' his first book for adults, the first in a series called Life Beyond Personality. He says: "We enter this world as pure Oneness, (what I call our ‘original state of Being’) but we lose thi

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