Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award 2008
The 2008 Booktrust Best New Illustrators were revealed by 2007-2009 Children's Laureate Michael Rosen at the Children’s Book Fair in Bologna in March 2008.
The final ten represent the best rising talent in the field of illustration today, who demonstrate remarkable creative flair, artistic skill and boundless imagination in their work.
The 2008 Booktrust Best New Illustrators are: Alexis Deacon, Polly Dunbar, Lisa Evans, Emily Gravett, Mini Grey, Oliver Jeffers, David Lucas, Catherine Rayner, Joel Stewart, Vicky White.
David Roberts and Sam Lloyd were highly commended by the judges.
Winners
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Mini Grey
Mini Grey was given her name after being born in a mini in a car park in South Wales. After... -
Oliver Jeffers
As a picture book creator Oliver Jeffers has been the recipient of some of children's books highest accolades, including the... -
David Lucas
David Lucas was born in Middlesbrough and grew up in Hackney, in east London. His stories are a mix of... -
Alexis Deacon
Alexis Deacon graduated in 2001 with a first class honours degree in Illustration from the University of Brighton. Before graduating... -
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart was brought up in a commune in the wilds of Yorkshire. From an early age he was knocked... -
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett was born in Brighton. After leaving school with few qualifications she spend eight years living on the road... -
Catherine Rayner
Award-winning author and illustrator Catherine Rayner was born in Harrogate and now lives in Edinburgh. She has a BA Hons... -
Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar studied illustration at Brighton Art School and now lives and works in London. Author and illustrator of Penguin,... -
Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar studied illustration at Brighton Art School and now lives and works in London. Author and illustrator of Penguin,... -
Lisa Evans
Lisa Evans has worked as an illustrator for a number of years, working on projects as varied as children’s literature... -
Vicky White
Vicky White worked as a zoo keeper looking after the great apes at Chester Zoo for six years where she...
Judges
The judging panel was chaired by Nicolette Jones of the Sunday Times and included author Malorie Blackman and author and illustrator Anthony Browne.
Commenting on the judging process Nicolette Jones said:
We were looking for originality, draughtsmanship, and for illustrators who understood how to use the relationship between words and text in a picture book...The final choice demonstrated skill in a variety of styles and different media, so there should be something here for readers of all tastes to enjoy. And the future of children’s illustration looks encouraging.
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Malorie BlackmanMalorie Blackman OBE author of books and television drama for children, teenagers, and young adults.
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Anthony BrowneAnthony Browne is an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of children's books with over forty titles to his name including Gorilla and Willy the Wimp. He was born in Yorkshire and studied graphic arts at Leeds Art College, working as a medical illustrator and an illustrator of greetings cards before his first book was published in 1976. He has gone on to win numerous awards including the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Anthony was the Children's Laureate 2009-2011 and used his time in the post to raise the profile of picture books and picture book illustration, as well as the value of supporting children's creativity and imagination. -
Antonia ByattBefore joining Arts Council England, Antonia was Director of the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University, an academic research library and cultural centre containing the largest collection of women’s history in the UK.
Prior to joining the library, Antonia was head of literature at Southbank Centre, which involved overseeing the literature programme of around 130 events a year and overall management of the poetry library.
She is a governor of the Bishopsgate Institute and since 2008 has been governor of New Buckinghamshire University. -
John HuddyJohn Huddy first studied art history at school and went on to gain an MA (Hons) in History of Art at St Andrew’s University. John subsequently worked at auctioneers Christies in St James’s, London, where he extended an interest in old master drawings and paintings. However it was his close family connection with publishing that sparked his appreciation of the outstanding range and quality of the books he had grown up with; as a child he had met many leading authors and artists which ultimately led on to founding the Illustration Cupboard in 1995.
Read an interview with John
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Nicolette JonesNicolette Jones is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has worked for national newspapers and the book trade press. Originally from Leeds, she was a scholar at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and a Henry Fellow in the Graduate School of English at Yale, and she now lives in London with her children and her husband, also a writer and journalist. Specialising in literary and arts journalism, she is the children's books reviewer for The Sunday Times. Her award-winning book about the Victorian philanthropist Samuel Plimsoll and his campaign on behalf of sailors, The Plimsoll Sensation, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week she directed the children's programme at the 2010 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.
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