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 Mick Manning grew up in Yorkshire, England. He studied Illustration and Animation at the Royal College of Art in London. Brita Granström grew up on a farm in Sweden. She studied Illustration at Konstfack in Stockholm. They're married and live with their children in the North of England. Awards Mick and Brita have worked closely together on children’s books for ten years. Their first book together, The World is Full of Babies won the Smarties Silver Prize in 1996 and their second book, What's Under the Bed? took the TES Junior Information Book Award in 1997. Yum Yum and How Did I Begin? were 2 of the 6 prize winning children's books selected for the Rhone Poulenc Prize in 1998. In 2000 Wash, Scrub, Brush! won the English Association's Key Stage 1 Non Fiction Award. In 2005 they won the English Association Key Stage 1 Non Fiction Award again with Voices of the Rainforest (Watts) and were shortlisted for the Key Stage 2 award with Fly on the Wall: Roman Fort (Frances Lincoln). Collaborations Mick and Brita have also collaborated with other authors including: Karen Wallace, Martin Waddel, Sam McBratney, Kathy Henderson and Joyce Dunbar. In 2001 Mick's book A Ruined House was chosen by Quentin Blake as one of his fifty all time favourites and features in his book The Laureate's Party. Brita won both Parenting Magazine's Book of the Year 1999 and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award 2000 with her illustrations for Judy Hindley's Eyes Nose Fingers Toes while their next book Does A Cow Say Boo? (Walker) won the Oppenheim Platinum Award 2002. Some of Mick and Brita's all time favourite children's books... Peepo! – by Janet & Alan Ahlberg Stig of the Dump – by Clive King & Edward Ardizzone Our Village – by John Yeomen & Quentin Blake Dearest Sister – by Astrid Lindgren The Very Quiet Cricket – by Eric Carle What to Look for in Autumn – by E. L. Grant Watson & C. F. Tunnnicliffe Interviews The World is Full of Facts: Click the icon below to read an interview with Mick and Brita by Pam Kelt... Interview 1. Click below to see Mick and Brita's page at Watts' website. www.wattspub.co.uk/mmannfw.htm Click below to see Brita's pages at Time Warner: www.twbookmark.com/authors/15/2490 www.twbookmark.com/authors/15/2490/photo_gallery |
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