Simon Bartram Biography
Personal, Addresses, Career, Honors Awards, Writings, Work in Progress
Male. Education: Birmingham Polytechnic (illustration; first class), 1990.
Addresses
Agent—c/o Author Mail, Dutton's Children's Books, Dutton, Penguin Putnam, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.
Career
Illustrator and author of children's books. Freelance graphic artist.
Honors Awards
Mother Goose Award runner up, 1999, for Pinocchio; Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist, 2002, for Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob.
Writings
SELF-ILLUSTRATED
Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.
ILLUSTRATOR
Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio, translated and adapted by Jane Fior, Dorling Kindersley (New York, NY), 1999.
Wolfgang Somary, Night and the Candlemaker, Barefoot Books (Bristol, England), 2000.
Tim Preston, Pumpkin Moon, Dutton Children's Books (New York, NY), 2001.
Marcus Sedgwick, A Winter's Tale, Templar Publishing (Dorking, England), 2003, published as A Christmas Wish, Dutton Children's Books (New York, NY), 2003.
Contributor of illustrations to periodicals, including ES and London Independent on Sunday.
Work in Progress
Dougal, the Deep Sea-Diver, a sequel to Man on the Moon.
Biographical and Critical Sources
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, September 23, 2002, review of Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob, p. 72; September 22, 2003, review of A Christmas Wish, p. 71.
School Library Journal, January, 2001, Miriam Lang Budin, review of Night and the Candlemaker, p. 108; October, 2002, John Peters, review of Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob, p. 98.*
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