This document provides biographical information on several famous children's book authors, including Eric Carle, Pamela Allen, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, and Roald Dahl. It describes their places of birth, education backgrounds, notable works, awards received, and in some cases adaptations of their books into films. The style and illustrations of some of the authors are also briefly outlined.

3. Born: Eric Carle, June 25, 1929
Syracuse New York
Carle’s first book: Illustrated Bill Martin
Jr’s book, ‘Brown Bear Brown, Bear
What do you see?” which launched
Carle’s career.
Education: Academy of fine arts in Vienna

4. The style of writing Eric Carle uses
covers the domains of numeracy,
literacy, repetitive language, coinciding
with children’s experiences in their
every day lives.
Carle’s illustrations are in a form of a
collage. Firstly he paints over colored
tissue paper using various brushes and
tools to form a stamp like texture. Then
the shapes are cut in colored paper to
make parts of his scenes and characters.
Underlying message in Eric
Carle’s books are:
Growth and Discovery

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Eric Carle reads the Very
Hungry Caterpillar on Youtube.
Very Hungry caterpillar is written in 30 language.
Audio gallery of the Very Hungry Caterpillar is
translated in simplified Chinese and complext
Chinese, Dutch, French, Japanese, Lithuanian, Maori
and Norwegian.
The House for Hermit Crab is available on CD and
DVD
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6. Pamela Allen
Was born on the 3rd of April 1934
In Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand
Pamela Allen has wrote
and illustrated over 30 children’s
picture books since 1980
She studied at the Elam School of
Fine Arts at Auckland University
College, and graduated with a
Diploma of Fine Arts in 1955.
She married sculptor Jim Allen in 1964.
They moved to Sydney, Australia in
about 1977.

7. Pamela Allen wrote and illustrated
her first book,
Mr Archimeds’ Bath in 1830
She won the Children's
Book Council of Australia's
Children's Picture Book of
The Year Award in 1983 for
Who Sank the Boat?
And in 1984 for Bertie and the Bear

8. 2003 2004
Eight of
Pamela's titles
were adapted
2007 2008
for the
stage by
Patch Theatre
Company,
and performed
in the
Sydney Opera
2008 2010
House.

9. Born: Theodor Seuss Geiselin, March 2, 1904,
Springfield Massachusetts.
Died: September 24, 1991, aged 87
Geisel's first book, ‘And to Think That I Saw It
on Mulberry Street’, was rejected 27 times
before it was finally published by Vanguard
Press in 1937
First cartoon published when using the name
“Seuss” was July 1927 issue of the Saturday
Evening Post

10. The style of writing Dr. Seuss used in
his books were-
• Rhyming
• Figurative language
• Imagery
His illustrations are fascinating as he
only draws one human face, however
all his characters look alike with minor
adjustments.
Some hidden message in Dr.
Seuss books..
• The Lorax: recognised as
Dr. Seuss' take on
environmentalism and how
humans are destroying
nature.
• Green eggs and Ham:
Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss'
editor, bet him that he
couldn't write a book using
50 words or less.
• Horton hears a who: the
line "A person's a person,
no matter how small," has
been used as a slogan for
pro-life organizations for
years.

11. Movies:
In 1966, The Grinch was
adapted into an animated
film.
The Lorax
The Cat in the Hat
Horton Hears a Who
Dr. Seuss books are written
in different languages such
as French, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, English,
Spanish and Hebrew.

12. Maurice Sendak
Born : Maurice Bernard Sendak, June 10, 1928
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: May 8, 2012, aged 83
Danbury, Connecticut USA
1956 - Published
The first children’s book he
both wrote and illustrated was
Kennys Window

13. Maurice refused to lie to children, vowing never to write
about sunshine and rainbows and attributes his success to a
refusal to patronise younger readers and sugar-coat their
experiences to real life. He drew on his own life
experiences as a child.
Through a small boy, Chicken
Soup with Rice, teachers the
names of the months.
Bumble-Andy is the last picture book he
has published

14. 2009
Feature film of Where The Wild
Things Are is released on DVD

15. 1964 - Caldecott Medal,
1970 - International Hans Christian Andersen Award
1982 - National Book Award
1983 - Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
1996 - National Medal of Arts
2003 - Awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2004 - Honorary doctorate from Goucher College
2013 - Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame in

16. Dahl grew up in England and at age eighteen moved to Africa
Dahl first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. Thereafter he transferred to a boarding school in England: St Peter's in Weston-
Super-Mare and from 1929, attended Repton School in Derbyshire.
Throughout his childhood and adolescent years, Dahl spent the majority of his summer holidays with his mother's family in Norway,
and wrote about many happy memories from those expeditions.
Young children to young Adults
Date of Birth:
September 13, 1916
Cardiff, Wales
Roald Dahl reads from BFG
(Please click sound icon above)

17. Dahl's children's works are usually told from the point
of view of a child. They typically involve adult villains
who hate and mistreat children. They usually contain a
lot of black humour and grotesque scenarios.
Dahl’s stock characters are possibly a reference to the abuse
that Dahl stated that he experienced in the boarding schools
he attended, including gruesome violence.
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, an English cartoonist illustrated
Dahl’s children's books. His quick, loose style, gave the
impression of him not taking long to do his illustrations at all,
however, it is quite the opposite. There is a huge amount of
planning that goes into each of his works, and many discarded roughs.

18. Roahl Dahl books that were created
into films:
• Matilda (1996)
• Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
(2005)
• Willy Wonka & The Chocolate
Factory (1971)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
• The Witches (1990)
• You only live twice (1967)
• The BFG (1967)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
• James & the Giant Peach (1996)

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