Award-winning British author-illustrator John Burningham, known for the wit and humor in his storytelling and artwork, died in London on January 4, peacefully, surrounded by his wife and children. He ...

John Burningham, Author. North-South/SeaStar $5.95 (, $5.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-58717-217-5 "Would you rather... your dad did a dance at school or your mom made a fuss in a cafe?" Burningham poses this ...

John Burningham has been creating picture books for almost 50 years, and his use of colour lithography along with his eccentric narratives have made him one of the defining illustrators of our time.

John Burningham, who wrote and illustrated scores of books that took generations of young children on fanciful journeys full of surprise and heart, died on Jan. 4 in London. He was 82. His death was ...

John Burningham has created some of the sweetest characters in children's books over the past 50 years. Here we celebrate some of his most beautiful animals, from Courtney the dog and Malcolm from ...

Air Miles has been illustrated by his wife Helen Oxenbury and finished by Bill Salaman, friend of the author who died in 2019 The final picture book from the late, much-loved children’s author John ...

The couple, whose children’s books include We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and Borka, receive BookTrust’s first ever joint lifetime achievement award Two giants of children’s books, Helen Oxenbury and John ...

The writer and illustrator John Burningham began his career in 1963 with the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning story of a goose without feathers called Borka. Over the course of a career which has spanned ...

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt illustrator Helen Oxenbury and her husband John Burningham, author and artist behind Granpa, have just become the first duo to win BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.

“If you do a lot of travelling and moving about, it’s easy to go on doing just that,” the artist and picturebook-maker John Burningham once remarked. Burningham, who has died aged 82, was referring to ...

John Burningham has lived with his wife, the illustrator Helen Oxenbury, in the same Hampstead house for 30 years. It is embellished with stained glass windows and gothic doors, a decorative stone ...