Barbara Jane Tanner, known as Jane Tanner, (born 29 November 1946 in Melbourne

Melbourne

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) is an Australia

Australia

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n children's book illustrator.
Majoring in painting and printmaking at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, she worked as a traditional artist for many years. She won the 1989 Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book

Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book

The Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book has been presented annually since 1955 by the Children's Book Council of Australia .The Award "will be made to outstanding books of the Picture Book genre in which the author and illustrator achieve artistic and literary unity, or, in wordless...

 award from the Children's Book Council

Children's Book Council

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, illustrating Allan Baillie

Allan Baillie

Allan Baillie is an Australian writer. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his family to Australia when he was seven. He began work as a journalist working on papers such as the Melbourne Sun, Telegraph and the Australian Women's Weekly having studied journalism at Melbourne University...

's book Drac and the Gremlin.

Career

She taught school in Victoria before becoming an illustrator. Tanner often uses soft pastels, watercolours and gouache

Gouache

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, but is best known for her use of coloured pencils. Over 25 years Jane has created more than 13 picture books including some written by herself, and numerous book covers.

Publications

• Lucy’s Cat and the Rainbow Birds, written by Anthony Hill
  Anthony Hill (author)
  Anthony Hill is an Australian author based in Canberra.Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he attended Melbourne University from 1960 until 1963 and then worked as a journalist at the Melbourne Herald before joining the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1972. In 1977 he left the Press Gallery to run an...
  
   (Penguin Books
  Penguin Books
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  ) (2007)
• The Fisherman and the Theefyspray written by Paul Jennings
  Paul Jennings
  Paul Jennings may refer to:* Paul Jennings , Australian children's author* Paul Jennings , UK humorist...
  
   (Penguin Books) (1994)
• The Wolf, written by Margaret Barbalet (Penguin Books) (1991)
• Making Lunch, written by Frances James (Macmillan) (1989)
• Drac and the Gremlin, written by Allan Baillie
  Allan Baillie
  Allan Baillie is an Australian writer. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his family to Australia when he was seven. He began work as a journalist working on papers such as the Melbourne Sun, Telegraph and the Australian Women's Weekly having studied journalism at Melbourne University...
  
   (Penguin Books) (1988)
• There’s a Sea in My Bedroom, written by Margaret Wild
  Margaret Wild
  Margaret Wild is an Australian author. She was born in 1948 in Eschew, a small town in South Africa, and came to Australia in 1972. She now lives in Sydney. Before becoming a fulltime writer, Margaret was a journalist for newspapers and magazines and then she worked for sixteen years as a book...
  
   (Penguin Books) (1984)
• Time for a Rhyme, with Marjory Gardner and Heather Philpot (Thomas Nelson
  Thomas Nelson (publisher)
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  ) (1982)

As author/illustrator

• Just Jack (Penguin Books) (2008)
• Ride with Me (Penguin Books) (2006)
• Isabella’s Secret (Penguin Books) (2004)
• Playmates (Penguin Books) (2002)
• Niki’s Walk (wordless picture book, Thomas Nelson) (1987)

Awards and nominations

• CBC Book Awards, Early Childhood - Shortlist 2003

• Christian Schools Book Award 1998 (winner)

• Wilderness Society Environment Award 1994 (winner)

• Human Rights Award 1992 (winner)

• CBC Awards-Younger Readers-Shortlist 1992

• Victorian Premiers Award-Shortlist 1989

• CBC Picture Book of the Year 1989(winner)

• Kate Greenaway Medal
  Kate Greenaway Medal
  The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in the United Kingdom in 1955 in honour of the children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway. The medal is given annually to an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature. It is awarded by Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...
  
  -Shortlist 1985

• CBC Picture Book Award - shortlist 1985

• Frequent Shortlistings for Yabba Awards.

External links

• Biography @ Penguin