Kathryn Cave

Kathryn Cave

Kathryn Cave (born 1948 in Aldershot, England) is an award-winning British children's book author. She was awarded the very first international UNESCO prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance for Something Else. [ [http://www.unesco.org/culture/toleranceliterature/html/win97.htm 1997 Winners UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance] ] The book was later made into a TV comic series by TV Loonland.

She is married and has three children, Eleanor, Joseph and Alice. Kathryn has previously worked as an editor for Penguin and Basil Blackwell and currently deals with children's non-fiction at Frances Lincoln. [ [http://www.puffin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000051954,00.html Puffin Books] ]

She lives with her family in Uxbridge, Middlesex. [ [http://www.puffin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000051954,00.html Puffin Books] ]

Books

*"Henry Hobbs, Alien" (1990)
*"Andrew Takes the Plunge" (1994)
*"Jumble" (1995)
*"The Emperor's Gruckle Hound" (1996)
*"Horatio Happened" (1998)
*"William and the Wolves" (1999)
*"Septimus Similon, Practising Wizard" (2000)
*"Henry Hobbs, Space Voyager" (2001)
*"Henry Hobbs and the Lost Planet" (2002)

Picture Books

*"Out for the Count" (1991) illustrated by Chris Riddell
*"Something Else" (1994) illustrated by Chris Riddell
* The Boy Who Became an Eagle (2000) illustrated by Nick Maland
* Henry's Song (2000) illustrated by Sue Hendra
* Brave Little Grork (2002) illustrated by Nick Maland
* You've Got Dragons (2003) illustrated by Nick Maland
* That's What Friends Do (2004) illustrated by Nick Maland
* Friends (2005) illustrated by Nick Maland

Awards

* 1997 Die Kinder- und Jugendbuchliste (RB/SR) in Germany for Something Else
* 1997 UNESCO prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance for Something Else

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