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Carol Thompson
Carol Thompson is an English author/illustrator living in a small town in the middle of England. Her childhood was spent in the East Anglian Fens, a wild landscape of flatland, water and huge skies. As a child she cycled everywhere - and still does!
She graduated with a BA in textile design, and worked as an illustrator in a small studio, eventually finding her place in the wonderful world of children's picture books. Carol is now the illustrator and in some cases the author/illustrator of more than sixty books. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages, including Lebanese and two indigenous Sioux languages, Dakota and Ojibwe. Somewhere in between she also raised three sons.
I'm a fan of the small board book, and have wondered why they're so often overlooked. They can be a small child's first experience of handling and looking at a piece of visual art upside down or not! They deserve to be creative and special CT
Awards
Mother Goose Award for a first picture book.
MOMMY, MAMA, and ME; DADDY, PAPA, and ME (Tricycle)
Stonewall Honor Picture Book Award, US
ALA Notable Book
Co-operative Children's Book Centre Choice 2010
Oppenheim gold award US
THUNDERBOOMER (Clarion)
2010 ALA Notable Book
Smithsonian Museum Notable Books for Children
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
SNUG. (Childs Play) Coventry Inspirational Book Award (runner-up); Scottish Book Trust selected
CHILL. (Little Hare) UK Literacy Awards shortlist
ONE, TWO, THREE... JUMP! (Childs Play) Guardian's top 10 most inclusive books.
Children with eye patches, helmets, walking frames, hearing aids and cochlear implants can all be found having a whale of a time in the pages of this book. JUMP takes a simple concept and fuses it with wonderful inclusive images to make something utterly delightful and compelling. The books have a real sense of energy, reflecting the excitement of children as they explore the world through movement Guardian
Carol is a member of The Society of Authors and The Society of Childrens Writers and Illustrators. She is a committee member on IBBY (the International Board on Books for Young People), whose aims are to promote international understanding through children's literature and to ensure that children everywhere have access to good books.
Publishers include:
Walker Books, Candlewick Press, Oxford University Press, Francis Lincoln, Bloomsbury, Little Hare,
Roaring Brook Press, Clarion, Albert Whitman, Random House, Dutton, Tricycle Press, Transworld, and Childs Play.
Carol is a regular contributor to HighLights magazine and Ladybug USA.
Work exhibited at:
Barbican Centre London
Commonwealth Institute London
Victoria and Albert Museum London
Chris Beetles Gallery London
See more at: http://www.childs-play.com/contributor/thompson_carol.html#sthash.6g1ncSXk.dpuf
Latest News
CHOICES on 2022 Klaus Flugge Shortlist!
CHOICES has been shortlisted for the 2022 Klaus Flugge Prize!
Authors
- Sue Baker
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- Jana Novotny-Hunter
- Richard O'Neill
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- Katharine Quarmby
- Susan Rollings
- Mandy Ross
Illustrators
- Marina Aizen
- Roberta Angeletti
- Laura Barella
- Becky Baur
- Kirsti Beautyman
- Georgie Birkett
- Paula Bowles
- Marta Cabrol
- Joaquín Camp
- Kelly Caswell
- Cristiana Cerretti
- Charlotte Cooke
- Estelle Corke
- Nichola Cowdery
- Dan Crisp
- Jane Eccles
- Alison Edgson
- Kate Edmunds
- Lisa Evans
- Caroline Formby
- Tina Freeman
- Rachel Fuller
- Masumi Furukawa
- Toni Goffe
- Richard Hatfield
- Nora Hilb
- Richard Johnson
- Dubravka Kolanovic
- Annie Kubler
- Anthony Lewis
- Martha Lightfoot
- Summer Maçon
- Diana Mayo
- Angela Muss
- Feronia Parker Thomas
- Andrea Petrlik
- Sanja Rescek
- Daniel Rieley
- Natasha Rimmington
- Bruno Robert
- Simona Sanfilippo
- Elisa Squillace
- Hannah Tolson
- Barbara Vagnozzi
- Natalia Vasquez
- Claudia Venturini
- Anna Wadham
- Kay Widdowson
- Kay Widdowson
- Hannah Wood
- Elke Zinsmeister
Authors & Illustrators
- Pam Adams
- Paul Adshead
- Zuriñe Aguirre
- Alborozo
- Gabriel Alborozo
- Kate Alizadeh
- Marta Altés
- Airlie Anderson
- Sarah Arnold
- Mark Birchall
- Claudia Boldt
- Sebastien Braun
- Megan Brewis
- Katie Brosnan
- Ailsa Burrows
- Caragh Buxton
- Jo Byatt
- Hannah Cumming
- Roxana De Rond
- Courtney Dicmas
- Lucy Dillamore
- Petronela Dostalova
- Jenny Duke
- Jo Empson
- Trudi Esberger
- Rosie Faragher
- Renata Galindo
- Evgenia Golubeva
- Aoife Greenham
- Julia Groves
- Maria Gulemetova
- Gillian Hibbs
- Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar
- Penny Ives
- Kees Moerbeek
- Amanda Montgomery-Higham
- Susanna Moores
- Polly Noakes
- Carolina Rabei
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- Jemima Sharpe
- Jessica Shepherd
- Jess Stockham
- Phoebe Swan
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