Alison Lester
Auteur de Imagine
A propos de l'auteur
Alison Lester was born on November 17, 1952, in Foster, Victoria, Australia. She received a higher diploma in teaching at The Melbourne Teacher's College, where she trained as a secondary arts and crafts teacher. Before she began writing and illustrating her own books, she worked as an art teacher afficher plus and an illustrator. She is the author and illustrator over 25 picture books. Her first novel, The Quicksand Pony, won an Australian Young Readers Book Award and a Children's Book Council of America (CBCA) Book of the Year Award. Her picture books Clive Eats Alligators and the Journey Home each won a CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award. She was Australia's Inaugural Children's Laureate from 2011-2012. In 2016, she was awarded the Children's Language and Literature Award from the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards and inducted into the Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year Hall of Fame. She was awarded the 2016 Dromkeen Medal for her body of work and its contribution to the development of children's literature in Australia. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Alison Lester
I'm Green and I'm Grumpy (Lift-the-Flap) 4 exemplaires
I'm Green and I'm Grumpy! 2 exemplaires
Who's That Knocking 2 exemplaires
Snore - talk to the Australian animals 1 exemplaire
Roar - talk to the wild animals 1 exemplaire
Pferdefreundinnen - Das Zirkuspony: Band 2 - PANAMA 1 exemplaire
Hoot - Talk to the night animals 1 exemplaire
Stell dir mal vor 1 exemplaire
The very best of Alison Lester 1 exemplaire
Ky nang thuyet trinh hieu qua 1 exemplaire
Splash - talk to the ocean animals 1 exemplaire
Who's that knocking? 1 exemplaire
Imagine: A Special 30th Anniversary Edition 1 exemplaire
Great big cuddle 1 exemplaire
I'm green and I'm grumpy 1 exemplaire
Bonnie & Sam: Saving MR Pinto/The Shadow Brumby/Racing the Tide/The Circus Pony (Bonnie & Sam Horse-Crazy!) (2008) 1 exemplaire
I'm Green and I'm Grumpy 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Lester, Alison
- Date de naissance
- 1952-11-17
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Foster, Victoria, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Nar Nar Goon North, West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Études
- Melbourne Teacher's College
- Professions
- children's book author
illustrator - Prix et distinctions
- Antarctic Arts Fellow
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Tricky's Bad Day par Alison Lester
From Cockburn Libraries (Australia): "Poor Tricky! Nothing is going right for him. Milk spills, pyjama buttons won't work, his little sister wrecks their game, and when he tries to help out, everything gets worse. Tricky's having a very bad day! Then Dad has an idea. Outside it's wild, but there's a lot to explore..."
Although Lippizaner stallions really were rescued from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna during WWII, this specific tale of nine-year-old Nina and her father Viktor is fictional. Nina's decision to bring an old cab horse called Zelda along with the four stallions when they flee the city and head for the border turns out to be one that saves their lives, and all five horses and two people make it to safety (although one wonders about the friend who guided them to the pass, and then turned back). Mixed media illustrations, including photographs, are truly special.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 92
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 3,628
- Popularité
- #6,979
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 62
- ISBN
- 361
- Langues
- 7