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Anthony
grew up in a pub in a village called Hipperholme in Yorkshire.
He loved art and would spend hours drawing with his father.
As well as drawing Anthony played a lot of sports like rugby,
football and cricket. After school Anthony studied graphic
design and then went on to paint pictures of the insides
of people's bodies for medical textbooks. He found this
job fascinating but after three years felt that the work
was becoming a bit repetitive and so began designing greetings
cards. This led him to illustrating children's books - his
book Gorilla began life as a picture on a birthday
card.
Anthony
has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Kate
Greenaway Medal twice and the Kurt Maschler Award three
times. In 2000 he received the highest international honour
for illustration, the Hans Christian Anderson Award, for
his services to children's literature becoming the first
British children's illustrator to win the award since 1956.
Anthony
now lives in Kent with his wife and two grown-up children.
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