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| Gregory Rogers |
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Gregory Rogers has loved art and drawing since an early age, and studied fine art at the Queensland College of Art. He worked in the public service for a number of years as a graphic designer in media and public relations and became a freelance illustrator in 1987.
His first major commissions in the world of books were covers for young adult novels for UQP. He has since created many covers, and illustrated novels and picture books for authors such as Gary Crew, Margaret Wild, Libby Hathorn and Victor Kelleher. In 1995 he won the British Kate Greenaway award for his illustrations for Libby Hathorn’s Way Home. To date, Gregory has illustrated more than forty picture books.
In 2004, Gregory illustrated one of his own stories, The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard. It was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s book awards in 2005, and in the same year was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best ten illustrated children’s picture books. Two companions to this book, Midsummer Knight and The Hero of Little Street, have also been released.
Gregory loves music, and is a collector of treasures, which he defines as ‘those odd and unusual objects that I can stare at and study if I need a distraction’. Books are part of this collection. His favourite book of all time is A Day on the Avenue by Robert Roennfeldt (1984). |
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