Congratulations to Chris Riddell, the author, artist and political cartoonist, who has taken over from Malorie Blackman to become the 9th Children's Laureate.
Chris has said that over the next two years he wants to concentrate on creativity and visual literacy.
He wants to encourage everyone to draw something everyday.
So check out his laureate log (his blog) for his daily doodles.
What do you know about Chris Riddell?
What do you know about Chris Riddell?
The person i like in this picture is Coraline because of the art and the scare it is very creepy and very weird you should watch it on Halloween and say I am Coraline ooooh so creepy.
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ReplyDeleteChildren's Laureate is a position awarded in the UK once every 2 years to a ''writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field. The post stemmed from a discussion between the [now dead] poet Laureate Ted Hughes and children's writer Michael Morpurgo.
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ReplyDeleteChildren's laureate is a position awarded in the UK once every 2 years to a writer or illustrator of childrens book.
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ReplyDeleteChris riddell was born in 1962 in south afica where his farther was a liberal angilcan vicar and was opposed to the system of apartheid the family returned to England when he was one year old.
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ReplyDeletethe kate green away medal and the red house children books book award. goth girl and the ghost of a mouse won the costa chidrens book award in 2013.
ReplyDeleteWow - Year 3, you have a great bank of knowledge about Children's Laureates. It's not quite drawing but I just bought myself a colouring book to do in my spare time - I'm hoping it will make me more creative! Perhaps I will move onto drawing next!!
ReplyDeleteChris Riddell (Born 13 April 1962) is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's book and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won 2 Kate Greenaway Medals,the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's, and 2 of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002.
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