Hans Christian Andersen Award Exhibit | Links to more Information

The Hans Christian Andersen Collection at Northwestern: Illustrated Children's Books from Around the World - July 27th through September 9th, 2004

More about the Hans Christian Andersen Award:

Jeffrey Garrett's comprehensive Hans Christian Andersen Award website (includes color images of book covers by nominated authors and illustrators)
Text of the laudatio presented to the winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Award by Jeffrey Garrett at the 2004 IBBY conference in Cape Town, South Africa
Official IBBY Website for the Hans Christian Andersen Award*
Web-viewable PowerPoint Presentation on the Andersen jury meetings in Basel and the awards announcement in Bologna. For images only, click the "slide show" button at the lower left; for captions, click the "outline" button at the lower right.
Wikipedia's entry about the award
Full listing of books by this year's author and illustrator nominees held in the Northwestern University Library's Curriculum Collection

More about the Illustrators:
(Sites are in English unless otherwise noted)

Quentin Blake (United Kingdom, 2002 HCA Award Winner):
- Official website
- Article on the Edinburgh City Library Website
- Article on the Random House website
- Entry in Wikipedia
- Interview on the Young Writer website
Ashley Bryan (United States, 2004 Coretta Scott King Award Winner):
- Profile in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
- Statement and bio on the Children's Book Council website
- Article in the Washington Post
Kitty Crowther (Belgium, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Biographical information (French)
- Interview in Citrouille (French)
Niki Daly (South Africa, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Biographical information from The Illustrators Portfolio, a website about South African illustrators
- Interview from The Illustrators Portfolio
- Profiles in Contemporary Authors Online, Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, and St. James Guide to Children's Writers ( Northwestern users only)
Iku Dekune (Japan, 2003 Biennale of Illustrations Bratislava, Grand Prix):
- Biographical information on the Bologna Book Fair website (at the bottom of the page)
- Article in The Slovak Spectator
Helmi El-Touni (Egypt, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Profile in Cairo's Al-Ahram Weekly
Eva Eriksson (Sweden, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Biographical information (French)
Wolf Erlbruch (France, 2004 Bologna Ragazzi Award Winner):
- Official website (French and German, with lots of pictures)
- Biographical information (French)
Marie-Louise Gay (Canada, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Interview from the Allen & Unwin website
- Profiles in Contemporary Authors Online, Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, and St. James Guide to Children's Writers ( Northwestern users only)
Mordicai Gerstein (United States, 2004 Caldecott Award Winnner):
- Official website
- Conversation with Jeffrey Brown of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (includes streaming video)
- Profile in The Horn Book (journal of children's literature)
Armin Greder (Switzerland, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Biographical page on the "Australian Authors and Illustrators" website
Roberto Innocenti (Italy, 2004 HCA Award Finalist):
- Profile in Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults ( Northwestern users only)
Mauri Kunnas (Finland, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Official website
- Profile on the "Virtual Finland" website
- Essay on Mr. Kunnas by a Finnish university student
- A small gallery of his drawings at Finpop.net
- Images of stamps he's designed
Angela Lago (Brazil, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Official website
- Brief bio from Moderna Online (Portuguese)
- Interview with Rodrigo de Souza Leão (Portuguese)
Dave McKean (United Kingdom, 2004 NY Times Best Illustrated Children's Book List):
- McKean's own site, "The Art of Dave McKean"
- Dreamline (a fan site)
- Interview with Henrik Andreason
- Interview with David Roel of KUCI Los Angeles (interview is also with author Neil Gaiman)
- Neil Gaiman's comments on Mr. McKean
- A profile on the Apple website
- Online galleries of his artwork
Svein Nyhus (Norway, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Brief bio from Bilder Bøker Barn Norden
- Article about new trends in Norwegian picture books from Nordic Literature (mentions Nyhus)
Daihachi Ohta (Japan, 2004 HCA Award Finalist):
- Images of his work
Krisztina Renyi (Hungary, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Official website
- Brief (but illustrated!) bio at her agent's website
- Images of her work
Tony Ross (United Kingdom, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Biographical information from Andersen Press
- Interview from the Birmingham Library's "Stories from the Web" site
- Profiles in Contemporary Authors Online, Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, and St. James Guide to Children's Writers ( Northwestern users only)
Istvan Schritter (Argentina, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Official website
- Interview with Unidad en la diversidad website (Spanish)
Maurice Sendak (United States, 1970 HCA Award Winner):
- Article on the PBS American Masters website
- Article on Mr. Sendak's booking agency's website
- Entry in Wikipedia
- Interview at Amazon.com
Javier Serrano (Spain, 2004 HCA Award Finalist):
- Article in El Mundo (Spanish)
Grégoire Solotareff (France, 2004 HCA Award Finalist):
- Official website
- Brief bio and lengthy bibliography from the Centre International d'Etudes en Littérature de Jeunesse
Max Velthuijs (Netherlands, 2004 HCA Award Winner):
- Official Kikker website (Dutch, with lots of pictures and animations)
- Brief bio and bibliography from the Andersen Press website
- Profile in the Argentine literary journal Imaginaria (Spanish)
- Profile in Contemporary Authors Online ( Northwestern users only)
- Press kit for a Toronto production of the puppet-play of Frog is Frog (PDF; requires Acrobat Reader)
Józef Wilkón (Poland, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Profiles in Contemporary Authors Online and Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults ( Northwestern users only)
Vera B. Williams (United States, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Interview from Bookwire's "Meet the Author" series
- Interview on Kidsreads.com
- Interview on the Children's Book Council website
- Photos of Ms. Williams from her January 2004 visit to a New York primary school
- Profiles in Contemporary Authors Online, Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, and St. James Guide to Children's Writers ( Northwestern users only)
Danuta Wojciechowska (Portugal, 2004 HCA Award Nominee):
- Profile from Editorial Caminho (Portuguese)

Information about other awards for children's literature:

Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children
Pura Belpré Award for the best work about the Latino cultural experience by a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator
Coretta Scott King Award for authors and illustrators of African descent whose works best represent an appreciation of the "American Dream"
Bologna Ragazzi Awards for distinguished works for children - an international award presented annually at the Bologna Children's Book Fair
Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava - international competition for children's illustrations
IBBY Honour List - a biennial selection of outstanding children's books from around the world
The American Library Association's rundown of who won which major literary awards in 2004

Other online resources on children's literature:

Curriculum Collection at the Northwestern University Library
Listing of resources on children's book illustration at the Northwestern University Library
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) — This project, sponsored by the University of Maryland and funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, is creating a collection of international children's books freely available around the world on the Internet. The growing collection includes over 300 books in 27 languages and is expected to grow to 10,000 titles by 2007.
Africa Access Review: Annotations and Critiques of Children's Materials on Africa
Internet Resources in Children's Literature (from the NU Curriculum collection website)
BookSpot (Books for Children)
Center for Children's Books (CCB) at University of Illinois
University of Wisconsin Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

*IBBY = International Board on Books for Young People



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