John Lawrence, Esq

Career: book illustrator; lectr in illustration: Brighton Poly 1960-68, Camberwell Sch of Art 1960-92; visiting prof in illustration: London Inst, Anglia Ruskin Univ Cambridge Sch of Art 2001-; external assessor of illustration: Bristol Poly 1978-82, Brighton Poly 1982-85, Exeter Coll of Art 1986-89, Duncan of Jordanstone Coll of Art 1986-89, Kingston Poly 1990-93, Edinburgh Coll of Art 1991-94; work represented in: Ashmolean Museum, V&A, Nat Museum of Wales, Manchester Metropolitan Univ, collections abroad; memb Art Workers' Guild 1972 (Master 1990), RE 1987, Soc of Wood Engravers

Books and Publications: The Giant of Grabbist (1968), Pope Leo's Elephant (1969), Rabbit and Pork Rhyming Talk (1975), Tongue Twisters (1976), George His Elephant and Castle (1983), Good Babies Bad Babies (1987), This Little Chick (2002, New York Times Certificate of Excellence), Tiny's Big Adventure (by Martin Waddell, qv, 2004), Lyra's Oxford (by Philip Pullman, qv, 2003), Secret Seahorse (by Chris Butterworth, 2006), Once Upon a Time in the North (by Philip Pullman, 2008), Treasure Island (by Robert Louis Stevenson, 2009), The Arthur Trilogy (by Kevin Crossley-Holland, qv, 2010), Wayland the Smith (by Tony Mitton, 2012); illustrator of more than 200 books