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GREGORY ROGERS

Congratulations to Greg  for winning the CBCA’s 2010 children’s picture book category with The Hero of Little Street.

Gregory Rogers was born in 1957 and lives in Brisbane. He studied fine art at the Queensland College of Art. He has had several solo exhibitions of his work since 1984. He worked in media and public relations for the Commonwealth Government as a graphic designer for many years before taking up freelance illustration in 1987. 

Gregory's first major illustration commissions were for University of Queensland Press. He has since illustrated scores of book covers for many publishers and has illustrated a large number of educational and trade childrens' picture books. Among these are Auntie Mary's Dead Goat by Margaret Card (Hill of Content), The Postman's Race by Ian Trevaskis (Random House), Tracks by Gary Crew (Lothian Books), Lucy's Bay by Gary Crew (Jam Roll Press), Way Home by Libby Hathorn (Random House) and Running Away from Home by Nigel Gray (Random House). In 1995 Gregory won the Kate Greenaway Medal for his illustrations in Way Home. He is the first Australian illustrator ever to have won this prestigeous British award. Way Home also won a Parents Choice award in the USA and was shortlisted for the ABPA book design awards.

                                      

Other picture books include Beyond the Dusk by Victor Kelleher (Random House), The Platypus: What Is It? by Jo Brice (Penguin Books) which was shortlisted for the 2001 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature and also won the 2001 Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award for best children's book of the year , The Gift by Libby Hathorn (Random House), Princess Max by Laurie Stiller (Random House) which won the 2001 Australian Therapists Association Award, younger readers and picture book category and The Rainbow by Gary Crew (Lothian Books). In total he has illustrated over 40 picture books.

His first wordless picture book The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard was selected as one of the Ten Best Illustrated Picture Books of 2004 by the New York Times and short-listed for the CBCA Awards, Younger Readers, 2005 and the APA Best Designed Children's Picture Book, 2004. It also received a 2004 Australian and New Zealand Illustration Award from Illustrators Australia and was a Notable Children's Book of the Year for the American Library Association. His latest book is the much anticipated Midsummer Knight, which is a sequel to The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard and promises to be every bit as successful.Gregory lives in Brisbane, Australia. He shares a cluttered, old house with his partner and two cats.

                                        

BIBLIOGRAPHY/PICTURE BOOKS (trade)

  • Auntie Mary's Dead Goat - Margaret Card (Hill of Content, 1990)
  • The Postman's Race - Ian Trevaskis (Random House, 1991)
  • Space Travellers - Margaret Wild (Ashton Scholastic, 1992)
  • Tracks - Gary Crew (Lothian Books, 1992)
  • Lucy's Bay - Gary Crew (Jamroll Press, 1992)
  • Way Home - Libby Hathorn (Random House, 1994)
  • Running Away From Home - Nigel Gray (Random House, 1996)
  • Beyond the Dusk - Victor Kelleher (Random House, 2000)
  • The Gift - Libby Hathorn (Random House, 2000)
  • Princess Max - Laurie Stiller (Random House, 2001)
  • The Rainbow - Gary Crew (Lothian Books, 2001)
  • The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard - Gregory Rogers (Allen & Unwin, 2004)
  • Midsummer Knight - Gregory Rogers (Allen & Unwin, 2006)

  • The The Hero of Little Street (Allen & Unwin, 2009)

 

                                      

EDUCATION/NON-FICTION BOOKS

  • Enter Bob Dickinson - Arthur (Rigby Education, 1988)
  • Grandma's Memories - King (Mimosa, 1989)
  • The Ball Game - Lawrence (Mimosa, 1989)
  • Zoe at the Fancy Dress Ball - Reid (Mimosa, 1990)
  • Lucy Meets a Dragon - Reid (Mimosa, 1990)
  • Great Grandpa - McQuade (Nelson Australia, 1994)
  • What Goes With Toes? - Jeri Kroll (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
  • Joining the Team - Carr (Sundance, 2000)
  • The Platypus - Jo Brice (Penguin Books, 2000)
  • Theseus and the Minotaur - Brian (Pearson Education, 2002)
  • Hans Christian Andersen - Lewis (Pearson Education, 2003)
  • Oliver the Acrobat - Moore (Pearson Education, 2003)
  • Tiddalick the Thirsty Frog - Mark Carthew (Pearson Education, 2003)
  • The Brothers Grimm - Brian (Pearson Education, 2004)
  • King Nonn the Wiser - McNaughton (Pearson Education, 2004)
  • It's True: Fashion can be Fatal - Green (Allen & Unwin, 2004)

                                        

OTHER ILLUSTRATED TEXTS


  • The Bent-Back Bridge - Gary Crew (Lothian Books, 1995)
  • The Island - Michael O'Hara (Lothian Books, 1996)
  • The Moustache - Cormier (Harper Collins, 1996)
  • The Rings - Jenny Pausacker (Lothian Books, 1997)
  • American Dreams - Peter Carey (Harper Collins, 1997)
  • The Fort - Gary Crew (Lothian Books, 1998)
  • Fraidy Cats - Penny Hall (Koala Books, 1998)
  • The Bread of Heaven - Gary Crew (Lothian Books, 1999)
  • 100 Aust Poems for Children - Kathlyn Griffith (Random House, 2002)
  • Game or Not - Archimede Fusillo (Penguin Books, 2003)
  • 30 Australian Stories - Linsay Knight (Random House, 2004)
  • 30 Australian Ghost Stories - Linsay Knight (Random House, 2004)
  • Alex Jackson Dropping In - Pat Flynn (UQP, 2004)
  • 30 Australian Myths and Legends - Anne Ingram (Random House,2006)

                                        

BOOK DESIGN

    After Dark series - Various (Lothian Books, 1995)

  • The Bunyip and the Night - Mark Svendsen (Jamroll Press, 1994)
  • Swamp Soup - Jeri Kroll (Lothian Books, 1995)
  • Green Air - Jill Morris (Greater Glider, 1996)

                                        

 AWARDS

     CBCA's 2010 children's picture book category for The Hero of Little Street

  • Shortlisted in Childrens' Book Council Awards in 1993 for Lucy's Bay.
  • Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK) in 1995 for Way Home.
  • Winner of the Parent's Choice Award (USA) in 1995 for Way Home.
  • Highly commended in Australian Book Publishers Association Awards in 1995 for Way Home.
  • The Gift Selected for White Ravens exhibition Bologna 2001.
  • Winner of the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature 2001 for The Platypus: What Is It?
  • The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2001 Whitley Award best children's book of the year for The Platypus: What Is It?.
  • Winner of the Australian Family Therapist's Award for Children's Literature (picture books) for Princess Max in 2002.
  • The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard voted as one of the New York Times 10 Best Illustrated Books 2004 and an American Library Association Children's Book of the Year 2004. Also shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards 2004 and selected for the inaugural Illustrators Australia Illustration Awards 2004.
 
 
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