The Horror of Hickory Bay by Gavin Bishop

In 1994 he designed 12 covers for a pre-school magazine for Chinese children published by the Shanghai Children and Juvenile Publishing House. He was included in the 1990 edition of International Authors and Writers Who’s Who published by Burkes Peerage of London.

His children’s books are published internationally and articles about his work have appeared in the Library Association Journal, Times Education Supplement (London) and various other Australian, American and British publications. He was awarded a Christchurch Writers’ Walkway Bronze Plaque in 2002 and won the NZ Children’s Non-fiction Book of the Year in 2003. In 2000 he was presented with the Spectrum Print Award for the Best Use of Illustration in a New Zealand Book and was awarded the New Zealand Book Council Margaret Mahy medal for Services to Children’s literature – New Zealand’s highest honour for children’s literature.

He was awarded NZ Children’s Book of the Year in 20. He has won many awards for his books including the Russell Clark Medal for Illustration (1982), New Zealand Picturebook of the Year (1982, 19), and the Grand Prix of the Noma Concours, Japan, (1984). Bishop taught Art at Linwood High School in Christchurch for twenty years and subsequently was Head of the Art Department at Christ’s College until 1998 when he became a full-time writer/illustrator of children’s books. (Hons) and in 1968 he attended Christchurch Teachers’ College and obtained a Teaching Diploma. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Christchurch from 1964-68 graduating with Dip. Gavin Bishop was born in Invercargill and educated at Kingston Primary School at Lake Wakatipu, Clifton Primary School, Invercargill, and Southland Technical College.

The Horror of Hickory Bay by Gavin Bishop