Meet the illustrator Tohby Riddle from Australia

About Tohby: Tohby Riddle is an award-winning writer, illustrator, cartoonist, designer and sometime editor based in Sydney. He has written and illustrated numerous well-loved picture books; written a young adult novel; was the cartoonist for Good Weekend for nearly ten years; and is a former editor of The School Magazine, a literary magazine for children published by the NSW Department of Education.

Kids Kiddle contains a full list of all of Tohby's books. If you have access to the Storybox Library you can view three of Tohby's books. Here are some titles which are sure to be in a school library here in Australia. 

In this interview Tohby talks about his work with the NSW School Magazine. Here is Tohby's web site. 

Nobody Owns the Moon has just arrived in the US. It was first published in 2008. The Kirkus star review said: Respectful of children’s intelligence, the book presents topics such as friendship, acceptance, belonging, and otherness that will challenge them to think further. A gentle, understated story that invites reflection. Read this review by Elizabeth Bird for the School Library Journal - And like the play they’ve just seen, it has a bittersweet ending. I don’t keep a lot of the picture books that land on my desk, but this one I’m keeping for a long long time.

This week I am sharing the art of several illustrators who have been nominated for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen award. 

The Hans Christian Award is presented every two years by IBBY to an author and to an illustrator, living at the time of the nomination, who by the outstanding value of their work are judged to have made a lasting contribution to literature for children and young people. The complete works of the author and the illustrator will be taken into consideration in the selection process. The award is explicitly designed to be an 'international' work, and it is not explicitly given to a certain country.

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Ryôji Arai from Japan

Dubravka Kolanović from Croatia

Sydney Smith from Canada

David McKee from UK

Heinz Janisch from Austria  (for writing)