Gavin Bishop has published over 40 books that have been translated into nine languages. He has also written the libretti for children’s ballets for the Royal New Zealand Ballet as well as scripts for television.
Gavin Bishop is widely travelled and has been a guest author and speaker, through UNESCO, in Japan, China, Indonesia and the USA. He was a guest lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996. In 2003 with an Art and Science Collaboration Grant at Canterbury University he helped produce the world’s first 3-dimensional, animated picture book.
His awards include the Russell Clark Medal for Illustration (1982, 2006, 2008 & 2010); Grand Prix, Noma Concours – Japan (1984); NZ Children’s Picture Book of the Year (1982, 1994 & 2000); NZ Children’s Book of the Year (2000, 2003 & 2008); Margaret Mahy Medal for Services to Children’s Literature (2000) and The Silvia Ashton Warner Fellowship, Auckland University (2004).
Gavin Bishop appears in Schools Read Aloud Programme
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