Rod Campbell
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Rod Campbell is a Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 writer and illustrator of several popular children's books including the classic lift-the-flap board book
Board book
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 Dear Zoo.

Born in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 in 1945, he was brought up in Zimbabwe and returned to Britain where he completed a doctorate in organic chemistry. In 1980 he became involved in children's publishing where he began designing innovative books with interactive elements and repetitive phrases.

In 1987 he founded Campbell Blackie Books in partnership with his publisher Blackie. Campbell Books (as it became in 1989) was sold in 1995 to Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers
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Dear Zoo is his most famous work and is an enormously popular book for the under 5s. A bestseller for 25 years in Britain it has been translated into Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Persian, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Panjabi, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

Notable works

Dear Santa

Dear Zoo

ABC Zoo

Oh Dear!

It's Mine!

I'm Hungry!

I Won't Bite!

Baby's Busy Book

My Presents

Noisy Farm

Farm 123

Farm Babies

Buster's Day

Buster's Zoo

Here's Buster, But Where's Teddy?

Buster Goes To Playschool

Buster Gets Dressed

Buster Keeps Warm

Buster's Bedtime

The Pop-Up Farm

The Pop-Up Jungle

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