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Books By Judith Kerr - Author

Judith Kerr - 1923-2019

July 2016 Judith Kerr wins a Book Trust Lifetime Achievement Award. She received the award at London Zoo, at a ceremony hosted by former Children’s Laureate and BookTrust President, Michael Morpurgo. Judith Kerr said: "I am honoured and delighted that I have been chosen to receive the BookTrust’s Lifetime Achievement Award. I thank them very much, and as the presentation is to be at London Zoo, I’ll also be able to thank the tigers in the tiger enclosure who started it all."

Judith Kerr was born in Berlin in 1923 but escaped from Hitler’s Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis, because he dared to speak out against the regime. The day after the family left Berlin, the authorities came to arrest them, and throughout the war there was a price on her father’s head. Judith and her family passed through Switzerland and France before finally arriving in England in 1936. Judith wrote about her experiences in her classic autobiographical story, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

Judith won a scholarship to the Central School of Arts in 1945, and since then has worked as an artist, television scriptwriter and, for the past thirty years, as an author and illustrator of children’s books. Judith was married to the scriptwriter Nigel Kneale, who died in 2006, most famous for the hit sci‐fi series Quatermass. Her son is the writer Matthew Kneale who won the Whitbread Book Award for The English Passengers. Judith lives in south west London.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea was Judith’s first picture book and was published in 1968. She wrote it after telling the story at bedtime to her daughter Tracey and son Matthew. Lady Antonia Fraser was one of the first people to review the book and called it, “a dazzling first book,” that would make children “scream with delicious pleasure at the dangerous naughtiness of the notion.” The book has become a classic and appeared in the Telegraph’s list of top children’s books of all time. It has sold over 5 million copies, and celebrated its 40th Anniversary in October 2008. The Tiger Who Came to Tea was recently made into a stage play written by David Wood and produced by Nick Brooke, which has toured the UK.

 

Emily Gravett on Judith Kerr:

'I read The Tiger Who Came to Tea when I was a child and loved it. I remember being obsessed with the bit where the tiger came and drank all the water in the tap. I think it was the domesticity of it, that this person was at home and that this could actually happen. It was so matter-of-fact. Nothing really happens but it's still somehow magical.

'Kerr keeps the text very simple, and the illustrations give you clues as to how you should read it. In her Mog books, you can look at Mog's face to see how shocked or dramatic the action is. He is just a funny cat, with a woebegone expression.'

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Mog and Me

Judith Kerr

Board book

Pre-order. 30th January 2025

£7.19 £7.99

Mog the Forgetful Cat Jigsaw Book

Judith Kerr

Hardback

Pre-order. 10th October 2024

£13.49 £14.99

Mog and the Baby

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Pre-order. 1st July 2024

£7.19 £7.99

Goodbye Mog

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

My First Mog Books

Judith Kerr

Board book

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Where’s Mog?

Judith Kerr

Board book

Pre-order. 9th May 2024

£7.19 £7.99

Mog in the Dark

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Pre-order. 16th April 2024

£7.19 £7.99

Mog and Bunny and Other Stories

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Pre-order. 1st April 2024

£13.49 £14.99

Mog on Fox Night

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

One Night in the Zoo

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Mog Activity Book

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Mog the Forgetful Cat

Judith Kerr

Board book

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Tiger Who Came to Tea Activity Book

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Curse of the School Rabbit

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.30 £7.00

My First MOG ABC

Judith Kerr

Board book

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

My First MOG 123

Judith Kerr

Board book

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr

Hardback

In Stock

£11.69 £12.99

Mog’s Birthday

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Mog and Me and Other Stories

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Mog’s Family of Cats

Judith Kerr

Board book

Not Available

Mog in the Garden

Judith Kerr

Board book

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Mummy Time

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Mog’s Christmas

Judith Kerr

Board book

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

MOG’S CHRISTMAS

Judith Kerr

Board book

Not Available

My First Mog Books

Judith Kerr

Board book

Not Available

Mog in the Garden

Judith Kerr

Board book

Not Available

Mister Cleghorn's Seal

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Mister Cleghorn's Seal

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

One Night in the Zoo

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Not Available

The Great Granny Gang

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Not Available

Katinka’s Tail

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Tiger Who Came to Tea Party Book

Judith Kerr

Spiral bound

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£8.99 £9.99

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Judith Kerr

Board book

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Teeger That Cam For His Tea

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

My First Mog ABC

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

The Crocodile Under the Bed

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Judith Kerr Treasury

Judith Kerr

Hardback

In Stock

£22.50 £25.00

The Great Granny Gang

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

My Henry

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Mog’s Christmas

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Twinkles, Arthur and Puss

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Mog and the V.E.T.

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Mog and the Granny

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Mog and Bunny

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Big Mog Collection

Judith Kerr

CD-Audio

Not Available

The Other Goose

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Bombs on Aunt Dainty

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

A Small Person Far Away

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Mog’s Bad Thing

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Mog’s ABC

Judith Kerr

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Goose in a Hole

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Not Available

The Mog Collection

Judith Kerr

Paperback

Not Available

Katinka's Tail

Judith Kerr

Hardback

Not Available