Charlotte Voake
Charlotte Voake (born 1957) is a Welsh children's illustrator who has won several awards including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1997.
Charlotte Voake
- Name
- Charlotte Voake
- Born
- 1957
- Education
- University of London
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- writer · illustrator
- Honours
- Nestlé Children's Book Prize
- Languages
- English
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Charlotte Voake (born 1957) is a Welsh children's illustrator who has won several awards including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1997.
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• Name — Charlotte Voake • Born — 1957 • Education — University of London • Notable Work — Pizza Kittens Ginger
Life and career
Life and career
Voake was born and raised in Wales. She studied art history at the University of London where she also illustrated her first book. She has both written and illustrated her own books and illustrated books for other authors including Julia Donaldson. Voake lives in Surrey, England with her husband and two children.
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Charlotte Voake is recorded as having received Nestlé Children's Book Prize.
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1957
Charlotte Voake was born in 1957 at Wales.
Books written and illustrated by Voake
• Tom's Cat (1986) • Mrs. Goose's Baby (1989) • The Three Little Pigs, and Other Favorite Nursery Stories (1991) • Mr. Davies and the Baby (1996) • Ginger (1997) • Here Comes the Train (1998) • Alphabet Adventure (2000) • Pizza Kittens (2002) • Ginger Finds a Home (2003) • Tweedle Dee Dee (2008) • Ginger and the Mystery Visitor (2013) • Melissa's Octopus and Other Unsuitable Pets (2015) • Some Dinosaurs are Small (2020)
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- “Charlotte Voake”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and nominations
• 1989 – National Art Library Illustration Award for The Mighty Slide • 1997 – Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Ginger • 2002 – Smarties Book Prize Silver Award for Pizza Kittens Voake has also been shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award in 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1997.
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