Name Christopher Wormell | Role Illustrator | |
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Nominations Kate Greenaway Medal, Nestle Smarties Book Prize Books The big ugly monster a, Two Frogs, George And The Dragon, Teeth - Tails and Tentacles, The wild girl | ||
Story time puff puff chugga chugga by christopher wormell
Christopher Wormell (born 1955) is an English print-maker, principally known for his illustrated books.
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The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit by Christopher Wormell
Biography
He was born in 1955 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He had no formal training as an artist, working as a road-sweeper, rubbish collector, postman, and a factory worker. An interest in landscape painting led him to buy a set of wood engraving tools in 1982, and to teach himself how to use them. His first commercial book, An Alphabet of Animals, published in 1990 won that year's Graphics Prize at the Bologna International Children's Book Fair. He was the recipient of the 2004 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book Award for Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles.
He has published some 14 illustrated books and acted as illustrator of others' work on at least 18 more. His work has also been published as greeting cards and he designed the artwork for a series of advertisements for Adnams, a regional brewer based in Suffolk.
He lives in London with his wife and three children.
