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John Burningham (born 27 April 1936) is an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children.〔 He lives in north London with his wife Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator.〔 As of August 2012, his latest published work is a husband-and-wife collaboration, ''There's Going to Be a New Baby'' (Walker Books, September 2011), written by John and illustrated by Helen for "ages 2+".〔〔 Burningham won the 1963 and 1970 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration.〔〔 The first was for his debut as illustrator (and author), ''Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers'', named one of the top ten winning works for the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005).〔 His second Greenaway Medal winner, ''Mr Gumpy's Outing'' (1970), is his work most widely held in WorldCat participating libraries,〔 and it also won the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (U.S.) in the picture books category.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards: Winners and Honor Books 1967 to present )〕 For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator, Burningham was one of five or six finalists in 2012 and in 2014 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.〔〔〔 He was the U.K. national nominee in 1980 and 1986.〔 ==Biography== Burningham was born 27 April 1936, in Farnham, Surrey, England, to Charles and Jessie (Mackintosh) Burningham.〔〔 He was educated at the alternative school Summerhill.〔 In 1953 he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit.〔 He entered the Central School of Art when he was 20 and graduated in 1959.〔 After work on posters (for London and British Transport) and animated films,〔 Burningham debuted both as book author and book illustrator in 1963〔 with the picture book ''Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers'',〔 published by Jonathan Cape. For that he won the 1963 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.〔〔 For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel of experts named ''Borka'' one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.〔 Cape was soon looking for someone to illustrate a forthcoming children's adventure serial called ''Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang'' that was written by Ian Fleming, its most successful author at the time.〔Howard, Michael. ''Jonathan Cape, Publisher'' (Cape, 1971).〕 Fleming had suggested cartoonist "Trog" (Wally Fawkes) of the ''Daily Mail'', but the newspaper would not allow the illustrator of their popular ''Flook'' strip to work for an author whose James Bond stories were adapted as a comic strip for its arch-rival ''Daily Express''. Fleming consulted his motor engineer friend Charles Amherst Villiers, who produced a sketch based on Fleming's description of the magical car—this drawing was passed to Cape's popular new illustrator John Burningham, who was asked to illustrate the whole series on the strength of his debut story ''Borka''. ''Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang'' was originally published in three volumes, 1964–1965; the omnibus edition followed in 1968. Burningham's witty and timeless art-work, along with Fleming's imaginative text, led Chitty to become the most famous and best loved car in English-language fiction.〔 In 1964 Burningham married author-illustrator Helen Gillian Oxenbury,〔 who won the 1969 Greenaway Medal. He won the next year for ''Mr Gumpy's Outing'' (Cape, 1970), the first illustrator to win twice.〔〔〔 Oxenbury was later a highly commended runner up four times, and eventually won a second Medal of her own for an edition of ''Alice in Wonderland'' (Walker, 1999) that was also named to the anniversary top ten.〔〔 Burningham has contributed to more than sixty other books〔 and has received many awards〔 including the 1980 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Picture book category, for ''Was ist dir lieber ...'' (ISBN 3-7941-5094-5), the German-language edition of ''Would you rather ...'' (Cape, 1978, ISBN 0-224-01635-0). Google books calls it 'A series of comical choices such as, "Would you rather eat spider stew or slug dumplings or mashed worms?"'. For both writing and illustrating ''Granpa'' (1984) he won the "Emil": the Kurt Maschler Award, annually (1982 to 1999) recognising one UK-published "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."〔 It was adapted as a 1989 animated film of the same name. In 2012 Burningham was one of five finalists for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, which recognises a living "illustrator whose complete works have made lasting contributions to children's literature." Thirty national sections of the International Board on Books for Young People had exercised the option to nominate someone. The jury summarised, "John Burningham from the UK uses delicate irony mixed with innocence and high seriousness that with his use of line and colour, creates an intimacy with the reader."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Burningham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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