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Helen Ward
Helen Ward trained as an illustrator at Brighton School of Art, under the direction of well-known children's illustrators such as Raymond Briggs, Justin Todd, Chris McEwan and John Vernon Lord. In 1985, her final year at Brighton, Helen was awarded the first Walker Prize for Children's Illustration.
Awards for Helen's work include The National Art Library Awards 1998 and 2001 for The Hare and the Tortoise and her version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows in the Templar Classic series, and The National Art Library Award for The Tin Forest. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award in 2003 for The Cockerel and the Fox. This book also won the award in the children’s trade category at the British Book Design and Production Awards presented in November 2003.
Helen Ward lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Featured Books, with extracts by Helen Ward
Helen Ward
Book and CD. Exquisite and fascinating illustrations beautifully capture the hopeful mood of this story about the power of dreaming. Living in a miserable grey world, an old man repeatedly dreams of colour and growth. Gradually his world begins to full up with...
Format: Mixed Media Product - Released: 02/03/2009
Helen Ward
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. The most overlooked threat in the world today is the loss of peace and tranquility. Can someone find the time and space to stop, think and plant the seeds of change before it’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2007
Helen Ward
Exquisite and fascinating illustrations beautifully capture the hopeful mood of this story about the power of dreaming. Living in a miserable grey world, an old man repeatedly dreams of colour and growth. Gradually his world begins to full up with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2002
Books by Helen Ward
Dugald Steer, Wayne Anderson, Helen Ward, Tomislav Tomic
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2008
Helen Ward
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2007
Helen Ward
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2005
Jack London
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2005
Helen Ward, Ian Andrew
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2004
Helen Ward
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2002
Helen Ward
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2001
Kenneth Grahame
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2000
Helen Ward
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/1998
