Skip to the content
VALÉORINE London
Illustrator

Bob Graham

Robert Donald Graham, better known as Bob Graham (born 20 October 1942), is an Australian author and illustrator of picture books, primarily for very young children. Graham won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the UK, for the picture book Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child (Walker Books), which he both wrote and illustrated. (He donated the £5000 cash prize to refugees.) The story features a young girl who finds a tiny fairy family "in cement and weeds", contrary to her father's teaching.

Also recorded as Robert Donald Graham

In this articleReferencesBrowse the field

Bob Graham

Name
Bob Graham
Birth Name
Robert Donald Graham
Born
20 October 1942
Occupation
Author and illustrator
Awards
*Smarties Prize (2000)
Nationality
Australia
Honours
Charlotte Zolotow Award · Kate Greenaway Medal · Prix Bernard Versele Family League
Languages
English

VALÉORINE Encyclopedia

VALÉORINE documentary reading

Documentary summary

Robert Donald Graham, better known as Bob Graham (born 20 October 1942), is an Australian author and illustrator of picture books, primarily for very young children. Graham won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the UK, for the picture book Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child (Walker Books), which he both wrote and illustrated. (He donated the £5000 cash prize to refugees.) The story features a young girl who finds a tiny fairy family "in cement and weeds", contrary to her father's teaching.

Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE

Reference Check

Propose documentary evidence for Bob Graham. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.

Sign in to contribute

World of VALÉORINE

Documentary connections

Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.

Documentary evidence

Documentary basis

Authority files

wikidata · Q4932586

In this article

  1. 01Biography
  2. 02Honours and memberships
  3. 03Notes, references and evidence

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.

Elsewhere in Illustration

5,224 published records in this field, each with its sources named.

Best supported in this field

Read the complete illustration index

For owners

Own a work by Bob Graham?

A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.

Request a valuationHow selling works