Patrick Benson

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Biography

Patrick Benson was born in 1956 and was educated at Eton. He studied classical drawing in Florence, and continued studying Art at Chelsea Art School and St Martin's School of Art. He worked for a while in the fashion business before embarking on a career as illustrator.

In 1984 he won the Mother Goose Award, given annually to the most promising newcomer in children's book illustration, for his illustration of William Mayne's Hob Stories. He gained further acclaim for illustrating Owl Babies, written by Martin Waddell, The MinPins by Roald Dahl and since has illustrated many other titles, including The Little Boat by Kathy Henderson and The Sea-Thing Child by Russel Hoban, both shortlisted for a Kate Greenaway Medal.  The Little Boat also won the 1995 Kurt Maschler Award.

A passionate fly fisherman, Patrick Benson also illustrated Fly Fishing by J R Hartley, of Yellow Pages television advertisement fame.

In 1990, Patrick Benson wrote and illustrated Little Penguin.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Children, Illustration

Bibliography

Boots   (illustrator)   Walker, 1983

The Blue Book of Hob Stories   (illustrator)   Walker (reissued as 'The Book of Hob Stories'), 1984

The Green Book of Hob Stories   (illustrator)   Walker (reissued as 'The Book of Hob Stories', 1997), 1984

The Red Book of Hob Stories   (illustrator)   Walker (reissued as 'The Book of Hob Stories', 1997), 1984

The Yellow Book of Hob Stories   (illustrator)   Walker (reissued as 'The Book of Hob Stories', 1997), 1984

The Baron Rides Out: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as He Told Them to Adrian Mitchell   (illustrator)   Walker, 1985

The Baron on the Island of Cheese: More Adventures of Baron Munchausen   (illustrator)   Walker, 1986

The Tough Princess   (illustrator)   Walker, 1986

The Baron All at Sea: More Adventures of Baron Munchausen   (illustrator)   Walker, 1987

Herbert: Five Stories   (illustrator)   Walker, 1988

Robin Hood   (illustrator)   Walker, 1988

The Story of Three Whales   (illustrator)   Walker, 1988

Fred the Angel   (illustrator)   Walker, 1989

Little Penguin   (author/illustrator)   Walker, 1990

Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days   (illustrator)   Stanley Paul, 1991

The MinPins   (illustrator)   Cape, 1991

A Christmas Carol   (illustrator)   Walker, 1992

JR Hartley Casts Again: More Memories of Angling Days   (illustrator)   Stanley Paul, 1992

Owl Babies   (illustrator)   Walker, 1992

The Willows in Winter   (illustrator)   HarperCollins, 1993

The Court of the Winged Serpent   (illustrator)   Cape, 1994

The Wind in the Willows   (illustrator)   HarperCollins, 1994

The Little Boat   (illustrator)   Walker, 1995

Toad Triumphant   (illustrator)   HarperCollins, 1995

Let the Lynx Come In   (illustrator)   Walker, 1996

The Willows and Beyond   (illustrator)   Walker, 1996

The Last Days of the Wallendas and Other Poems   (illustrator)   Hodder Children's Books, 1997

The Lord Fish   (illustrator)   Walker, 1997

The Six Swan Brothers   (illustrator)   Scholastic, 1998

Dipper's Island   (illustrator)   Walker, 1999

The Sea-Thing Child   (illustrator)   Walker, 1999

The Willows at Christmas   (illustrator)   HarperCollins, 1999

Squeak's Good Idea   (illustrator)   Walker, 2001

Mole and the Baby Bird   (illustrator)   Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2002

Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveller   (illustrator)   Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2005

Moby Dick/Herman Melville   (illustrator)   Walker, 2006

Oddly/Joyce Dunbar   (illustrator)   Walker, 2009

Read about books by Patrick Benson at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

Buy books by Patrick Benson at Amazon.co.uk

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Prizes and awards

1984   Mother Goose Award   The Hob Stories by William Mayne

1995   Kate Greenaway Medal   (shortlist)   The Little Boat by Kathy Henderson

1995   Kurt Maschler Award   The Little Boat by Kathy Henderson

1999   Kate Greenaway Medal   (shortlist)   The Sea-Thing Child by Russell Hoban

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Bloomsbury Publishing plc 38 Soho Square London  W1D 3HB England Tel: +44 (0)20 7494 2111 Fax: +44 (0)20 7434 0151 E-mail: publicity@bloomsbury.com http://www.bloomsbury.com		Agent Rosemary Sandberg Ltd 6 Bayley Street London  WC1B 3HE England Tel: +44 (0)20 7304 4110 Fax: +44 (0)20 7304 4109 E-mail: rosemary@sandberg.demon.co.uk
Also published by Walker Books Ltd 87 Vauxhall Walk London  SE11 5HJ Tel: +44 (0) 20 7793 0909 http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk

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