Name Antonia Barber Role Author | Movies The Amazing Mr. Blunden | |
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Books The Mousehole Cat, The Ghosts, Catkin, The enchanterʼs daughter, The Monkey and the P Similar People Nicola Bayley, P J Lynch, Lionel Jeffries | ||
Antonia Barber born 1932 (real name Barbara Anthony) is an English author of books for children and adults. Barber resides in Kent and Mousehole, Cornwall. Her award winning book The Mousehole Cat has been made into an animated film and is being adapted as a stage musical. She graduated from University College London, and had a husband who was a structural engineer. She is the younger sister of fellow author Pamela Oldfield. Barber is currently living in her oast house in Kent and visiting Mousehole regularly. She is working on the Mousehole Musicals.
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Awards and recognition
The Ghosts (1969)
The Ring in the Rough Stuff (1983)
The Mousehole Cat (1990)
Three illustrators have earned some recognition by the British Library Association for their collaborations with Barber.
The Kate Greenaway Medal recognises the year's best children's book illustration (in that time, by a British subject).