![]() Chris displayed artistic talent from an early age and was encouraged in this by his mother. He attended Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School in Kennington. ![]() ![]() The family returned to England when Chris was one year old, where he spent the rest of his childhood with his sister and three brothers, who now live in South Africa, Brighton, and Egypt. Life Ĭhris Riddell was born in 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa, where his father was a "liberal Anglican vicar" and was opposed to the system of apartheid. ![]() On 9 June 2015, he was appointed the UK Children's Laureate. īooks that he wrote or illustrated have won three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes and have been silver or bronze runners-up four times. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002. Illustrator, author, political cartoonistĬhris Riddell OBE ( / r ɪ d ˈ ɛ l/ rid- EL) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born English illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. ![]()
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