cart Shopping Cart    You have 0 items    Checkout

Signup for our newsletter

What's the story? is Storylines' newsletter. It includes news and information about children's literature around New Zealand as well as internationally.
First Name*
Last Name*
Email*

Groups

  • Yearbook Only -
    Invoice needed
Profiles > Profiles D-H > Alan Gilderdale

Alan Gilderdale

Alan_Gilderdale.jpgBorn in England, Alan attended Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London.
Alan has worked as a painter, printmaker, art lecturer and full-time illustrator. He has had work exhibited in London, Toronto and Auckland. Alan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art (UK). His  ork has also featured as cover art and black and white illustrations for a number of other books.
 
Alan works with his wife, Betty, on the Little Yellow Digger books. Despite Alan's initial reluctance to spend months drawing diggers they submitted text and illustrations to Scholastic who published it as a picture book in time for Christmas 1992. It has been reprinted several times and has become a perennial favourite with New Zealand.
In 2009, Alan was one of the members of the inaugural Storylines Gavin Bishop Award juding panel.
Selected bibliography:
  • Nelson Treasure text by Phyl Wardell (Hodder & Stoughton 1983).
  • Rifle and Tomahawk text by Mona Tracy (Hodder & Stoughton 1983).
  • Silver Island text by Edith Howes (Hodder & Stoughton 1983).
  • The Cruise of the Crazy Jane text by Isabel Maud Peacocke (Hodder & Stoughton 1984).
  • The Little yellow Digger text by Betty Gilderdale (Ashton Scholastic 1992).
  • The Little Yellow Digger at the Zoo text by Betty Gilderdale (Scholastic 1998).
  • The Little Yellow Digger Saves the Whale text by Betty Gilderdale (Scholastic 2001).
  • The Little Yellow Digger Goes to School text by Betty Gilderdale (Scholastic 2005).
  • The Little Yellow Digger and the Bones text by Betty Gilderdale (Scholastic 2009).
 
Awards:
Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award 2003 for The Little Yellow Digger. 
About our company
Enter a succinct description of your company here		 Contact Us
Enter your company contact details here