- John Burningham
John Burningham is an award winning children's author and illustrator. [ [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=460§ion=1 Bloomsbury.com - Bloomsbury Author Information ] ]
Biography
Burningham was born April 27, 1936 in
Farnham , Surrey, England cite web |url=http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/John-Burningham |accessdate=2008-03-15|title=Walker Books entry] to Charles and Jessie (Mackintosh) Burningham. cite web |url=http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/e-author.htm
accessdate=2008-03-15|title=Greenville Public Library entry] After primary school, he joined join the Friend's Ambulance Unit in 1953.cite web |url=http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/e-author.htm
accessdate=2008-03-15|title=Greenville Public Library entry] When he was 20, he attended theCentral School of Art and graduated in 1959.cite web |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1da9f20CD0tUr349BF57 |accessdate=2008-03-15|title=Contemporarywriters.com entry] After assorted work on posters for London and British Transport and animated films,cite web |url=http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/e-author.htm
accessdate=2008-03-15|title=Greenville Public Library entry] he began his writing career in 1963 [cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/magicpencil/burningham.html |title= The British Library entry |accessdate=2008-03-15] with the book [cite web |url=http://www.biblio.com/details.php?dcx=91955671&aid=frg |title=Biblio.com entry |accessdate=2008-03-15] which won the 1963Kate Greenaway Medal .cite web |url=http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/John-Burningham |accessdate=2008-03-15]Burningham married Helen Gillian Oxenbury, an author/illustrator in 1964,cite web |url=http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/e-author.htm
accessdate=2008-03-15|title=Greenville Public Library entry] and continued to write. Since his first book, he has contributed to over sixty other books,cite web |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1da9f20CD0tUr349BF57 |accessdate=2008-03-15|title=Contemporarywriters.com entry] and has received many awards.cite web |url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1580/Burningham-John-Mackintosh-1936.html |title= Entry at biography.jrank.org|accessdate=2008-03-15]References
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