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Role
  
Writer

Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Michelle Cartlidge


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Notable works
  
Pippin and Pod, Teddy Trucks

Siblings
  
Katrin Cartlidge, Tony Cartlidge

Parents
  
Bobbi Cartlidge, Derek Cartlidge

Books
  
Fairy letters, Mouse Wedding, Mouse Christmas, Mouse's scrapbook, The Cornish Cats Who

Occupation
  
Writer and Illustrator

Notable awards
  

Michelle Cartlidge is an English writer and illustrator.

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Michelle Cartlidge Michelle Cartlidge Childrens book author and illustrator

Early life and studies

Michelle Cartlidge Michelle Cartlidge Childrens book author and illustrator

Cartlidge was born in Hampstead, London to a British father and a German Jewish refugee mother. Her sister Katrin Cartlidge was an English actress who died in 2002.

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She trained in ceramics at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art. After leaving the Royal College of Art, Michelle decided to concentrate on drawing and started developing ideas for children's books.

Career

She won the Mother Goose Award for the most exciting newcomer to British Children's Books in 1979, for her first book ‘Pippin and Pod’. Since then she has had over a hundred books published world wide in over ten languages, and her "Teddy Trucks" books have been made into a popular animated cartoon series for Children's BBC. Her work is also included on the Signed Stories web site where books are performed in sign language for hearing-impaired children. Best sellers include ‘Mouse Ballet’ and ‘The Cornish Cats Who Went To Sea’.

Apart from the books that Michelle writes and illustrates herself, she has illustrated two collections of poetry for young children with Brian Patten. She has also designed a twenty-nine-piece bone china gift range for Wedgwood, and greetings cards, tins and wrapping paper.

Personal life

Michelle lives in Cornwall, in the aptly named fishing village of Mousehole.

She is a patron of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation.

References

Michelle Cartlidge Wikipedia


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