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Helen Oxenbury (1938-) Biography

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Personal, Addresses, Career, Honors Awards, Writings, Sidelights

Born 1938, in Suffolk, England; Education: Attended Ipswich School of Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts, London.

Agent—Elaine Greene, Ltd., 37 Goldhawk Rd., London W12 8QQ, England.

Writer and illustrator of children's books.

Stage designer in Colchester, England, 1960, and Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1961; television designer in London, England, 1963.

Kate Greenaway Award, British Library Association (BLA), 1969, for The Quangle-Wangle's Hat; Baby Book Award, Sainsbury's, 1999, for Tickle, Tickle; Kurt Maschler Award, 1999, and Kate Greenaway Award, BLA, 2000, both for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award, 2003, for Big Momma Makes the World.

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Numbers of Things, Heinemann (London, England), 1967, F.

Watts (New York, NY), 1968, published as Helen Oxenbury's Numbers of Things, Del