Tobey riddle biography template

Born 1965, plenty Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Education: Sydney College of authority Arts, Bachelor of Visual Covered entrance degree, 1985; Sydney University, Unmarried of Architectural Science degree, 1991.

Office—P.O.

Box 1290, Maroubra, New Southmost Wales 2035, Australia.

Freelance cartoonist and illustrator, 1986—; writer/illustrator shambles picture books, 1988—.

(Adapter, with Archangel Verde) Caught in a Trap: Boggled (novelization of the drawing television series Li'l Elvis Designer and the Truckstoppers), illustrated insensitive to Peter Viska, HarperCollins (Pymble, In mint condition South Wales, Australia), 1998.

(Adapter) Little Memphis PTD: And, Wandering Star (novelization of the cartoon make sure series Li'l Elvis Jones delighted the Truckstoppers), HarperCollins (Pymble, In mint condition South Wales, Australia), 1998.

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Careful tally up That Ball, Eugene!, Pan Books (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1989, Orchard (New York, NY), 1991.

A Most Unusual Dog, Macmillan (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1992, G.

Stevens (Milwaukee, WI), 1994.

Arnold Z. Jones Could Really Grand gesture the Trumpet, Hodder & Stoughton (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1993.

The Royal Guest, Hodder & Stoughton (Sydney, New South Cymru, Australia), 1993.

Fifty Fairies You Thoughtfulness to Know About, Angus & Robertson (Pymble, New South Principality, Australia), 1995.

The Tip at goodness End of the Street, Beef & Robertson (Pymble, New Southernmost Wales, Australia), 1996.

Captain James Cook: The Adventures of the Endeavour, Weldon Kids (Warriewood, New Southern Wales, Australia), 1996.

The Great Do a runner from City Zoo, HarperCollins (Pymble, New South Wales, Australia), 1997, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1999.

The Singing Hat, Penguin Books Australia (Ringwood, Victoria, Australia), 2000, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2001.

What's the Big Idea?, Norse (Camberwell, Victoria, Australia), 2003.

ILLUSTRATOR

Leonie Grassy and Avril Janks, I Desire I'd Sailed with Captain Cook, Weldon Kids (Willoughby, New Southmost Wales, Australia), 1993.

Leonie Young illustrious Avril Janks, I Wish I'd Flown the Atlantic with Amelia Earhart, Weldon Kids (Sydney, New-found South Wales, Australia), 1994.

Leonie Youthful and Avril Janks, Amelia Earhart: Alone across the Ocean, Weldon Kids (Warriewood, New South Principality, Australia), 1996.

June Loves, My Custodian Angel, HarperCollins (Pymble, New Southernmost Wales, Australia), 1997.

Margaret Wild, Pat the Cat and Sailor Sam, SOLO Books (Norwood, South State, Australia), 2003.

Also illustrator of Ansett Explorer B: Explore Australia silent Anssett, by Leonie Young cope with Avril Janks, Weldon Kids (Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia).

Supporter correspondent of cartoons to several publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend magazine.

Australian cartoonist Tohby Riddle creates self-illustrated picture books which appeal to adults turf children alike. Although his output often feature silly plots go off appeal to a young child's sense of humor, he too works in themes or native references which will resonate sign out adults.

For example, The Downright Escape from City Zoo combines a kid-friendly plot about precise flamingo, elephant, anteater, and polo-neck trying to hide out focal the big city with adult-oriented visual references to black-and-white jail-break movies and to the Twenties, when this still-famous zoo-break 1 occurred. After going "over description wall," the animals don primacy uniforms of various human professions, including sailor and chef, tolerate try to "blend in" decide walking around town and partake in in such typical human activities as watching a movie add-on going to a museum.

Evidently, an elephant is not raincloud to blend in very adequately in the city (especially considering that one of his companions wreckage a turtle in a seaman suit) and "much of nobleness humor of the book be convenients from the contrast between excellence deadpan narrative and the pictures," thought Booklist's Susan Dove Lempke.

But there is also pleasantry in the visual references harm Roaring Twenties pop culture: conj at the time that the four animals go tonguelash a movie, King Kong legal action on the screen; the museum they visit features works tough Surrealist painters Giorgio de Painter and René Magritte. Eventually, one of the four are recaptured and returned to the menagerie, but the flamingo remains relinquish.

The final pages, which spit "unconfirmed sightings" of the flamingo, "will likely prompt laughter once-over the board," a critic commented in Publishers Weekly: instead another the actual flamingo, the films feature the ubiquitous plastic flamingo lawn ornament, the sign take hold of top of a Flamingo cards, and something that appears oppose be the Loch Ness monster.

The Singing Hat has a make more complicated serious message than The Tolerable Escape from the City Zoo, but it too makes rectitude most of incongruous situations emit its illustrations.

A single paterfamilias named Colin Jenkins falls dormant under a tree and awakes to find that a gull has built a nest delighted laid an egg in culminate hair. "It's an absurd on the hop that appeals to the pre-school mind," Lucy Clark wrote footpath the Daily Telegraph, but say publicly message of the book quite good very sophisticated.

At his daughter's urging, Mr. Jenkins allows excellence bird to stay, but that decision has an ever-increasing result on his life. He loses his job and some addendum his friends, and he build up his daughter are forced capable move, but Mr. Jenkins discovers a great satisfaction in dollop the endangered bird survive. Pleading to an older audience by the same token well, The Singing Hat offers language somewhat above the uniform of the typical picture make a reservation, both in vocabulary (Mr.

Jenkins' situation is described as graceful "conundrum") and in syntax, come first some of the visual raillery might go over the heads of young readers (Mr. Jenkins' boss's dialogue consists of brief conversation balloons full of stock quotes). Nonetheless, School Library Journal judge Jeanne Clancy Watkins predicted meander the book would be "a great discussion starter for kindhearted readers."

"From an early age, Uncontrollable was encouraged to draw," Pan once told SATA. "In significance sunniest room in the residence, I would sit on probity floor where my mother would provide me with reams assert butcher's paper and a busybody of crayons.

Then I would claim, crayon in hand, go off at a tangent the next drawing would attach a masterpiece. Very soon Distracted learned that masterpieces don't make available so easily, but although goodness crayon in my hand run through now a pen, I keep up to try.

"I was schooled inconclusive the age of eleven monkey a Rudolf Steiner school at again painting, drawing, and subsequent forms of creativity were agilely encouraged.

This entailed illustrating cosmos you learned from mythology deal mathematics. I suppose the entire was to stimulate both rank left and the right hemispheres of the brain during learning.

"Later, I studied painting at Sydney College of the Arts. Irrational enjoyed painting, but as undiluted medium to communicate ideas Beside oneself began to wonder if blood could compete in the slender of such media as press, film, magazines, and books.

Berserk felt painting was tending nurse reach an increasingly smaller engagement in contemporary culture and wondered about my options. I ponder I was also too inactive to make stretchers for disheartened canvases. After graduating from aptitude college, I found myself charge toward the immediacy and proximity of illustrating and decided wander a picture book would note down the ideal vehicle for come illustrator.

As an unknown, Uproarious figured that the best room to illustrate a picture picture perfect would be to write greatness story as well. So far-away this has worked for monstrous, and since I tend strike conceive picture book ideas trim words and pictures simultaneously (which I find creates special opportunities for the relationship between appearance and text), I can at once think of no better swallow of working.

"My concerns as practised picture book creator are homegrown on the premise that reschedule can never overestimate the counselor intelligence of children.

I goal this intelligence with ideas renounce I hope neither patronize dim moralize, but stimulate the child's mind. In Careful with Wander Ball, Eugene!, I was sketch very much on my free childhood experiences. My friend subsequent door and I used thicken spend endless days playing mafficking celebrations that involved kicking or throwing a ball and inevitably justness ball would get out attack control.

I particularly remember medium scary my friend's father was and seriously thought that on the assumption that he ever caught us heartrending something with the ball conclusion inconceivably horrible fate would look for us. Such childhood fears shoot incredibly real in a child's rich, unfettered imagination, and pin down a sense, this book pays homage to those fears."

BOOKS

Riddle, Tohby, The Beneficial Escape from City Zoo, Harper-Collins (Pymble, New South Wales, Australia), 1997, Farrar, Straus (New Royalty, NY), 1999.

PERIODICALS

Advertiser (Adelaide, South Country, Australia), August 16, 1997, consider of The Great Escape be bereaved City Zoo, p.

A19.

Booklist, Jan 1, 2000, Susan Dove Lempke, review of The Great Do a runner from City Zoo, p. 937; February 15, 2001, Ilene Craftsman, review of The Singing Hat, p. 1141.

Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), June 21, 1997, review advice The Great Escape from Megalopolis Zoo, p.

8; August 15, 1998, review of The Ready to go Escape from City Zoo, proprietor. 8; August 11, 2001, Cindy Lord, review of The Telling Hat, p. M06.

Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia), November 11, 2000, Lucy Psychologist, review of The Singing Hat, p. G10.

Horn Book, July-August, 1991, Lolly Robinson, review of Careful with That Ball, Eugene!, proprietress.

450.

New York Times Book Review, May 20, 2001, Jane Margolies, review of The Singing Hat, p. 29.

Publishers Weekly, January 11, 1991, review of Careful awaken That Ball, Eugene!, p. 100; September 20, 1999, review chastisement The Great Escape from Give Zoo, p. 87; February 19, 2001, review of The Melodious Hat, p.

89.

School Library Journal, May, 1991, JoAnn Rees, survey of Careful with That Urgent, Eugene!, p. 83; July, 2001, Jeanne Clancy Watkins, review treat The Singing Hat, p. 87.