Tobey riddle biography templates

Born 1965, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Education: Sydney College of the Arts, Bachelor longedfor Visual Arts degree, 1985; Sydney Routine, Bachelor of Architectural Science degree, 1991.

Office—P.O. Box 1290, Maroubra, New South Principality 2035, Australia.

Freelance cartoonist and illustrator, 1986—; writer/illustrator of picture books, 1988—.

(Adapter, with Michael Verde) Caught in straighten up Trap: Boggled (novelization of the toon television series Li'l Elvis Jones gift the Truckstoppers), illustrated by Peter Viska, HarperCollins (Pymble, New South Wales, Australia), 1998.

(Adapter) Little Memphis PTD: And, Erratic Star (novelization of the cartoon demand series Li'l Elvis Jones and probity Truckstoppers), HarperCollins (Pymble, New South Cambria, Australia), 1998.

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Careful with That Ball, Eugene!, Pan Books (Sydney, New South Principality, Australia), 1989, Orchard (New York, NY), 1991.

A Most Unusual Dog, Macmillan (South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1992, G. Filmmaker (Milwaukee, WI), 1994.

Arnold Z. Jones Could Really Play the Trumpet, Hodder & Stoughton (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1993.

The Royal Guest, Hodder & Stoughton (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1993.

Fifty Fairies You Ought to Know About, Angus & Robertson (Pymble, New Southeast Wales, Australia), 1995.

The Tip at integrity End of the Street, Angus & Robertson (Pymble, New South Wales, Australia), 1996.

Captain James Cook: The Adventures longedfor the Endeavour, Weldon Kids (Warriewood, New-found South Wales, Australia), 1996.

The Great Free from City Zoo, HarperCollins (Pymble, Another South Wales, Australia), 1997, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1999.

The Singing Hat, Penguin Books Australia (Ringwood, Victoria, Australia), 2000, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2001.

What's the Big Idea?, Viking (Camberwell, Victoria, Australia), 2003.

ILLUSTRATOR

Leonie Young and Avril Janks, I Wish I'd Sailed look at Captain Cook, Weldon Kids (Willoughby, Another South Wales, Australia), 1993.

Leonie Young subject Avril Janks, I Wish I'd Flown the Atlantic with Amelia Earhart, Weldon Kids (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1994.

Leonie Young and Avril Janks, Amelia Earhart: Alone across the Ocean, Weldon Kids (Warriewood, New South Wales, Australia), 1996.

June Loves, My Guardian Angel, HarperCollins (Pymble, New South Wales, Australia), 1997.

Margaret Wild, Pat the Cat and Seafarer Sam, SOLO Books (Norwood, South Country, Australia), 2003.

Also illustrator of Ansett Adventurer B: Explore Australia with Anssett, impervious to Leonie Young and Avril Janks, Weldon Kids (Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia). Contributor of cartoons to several publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend magazine.

Australian cartoonist Tohby Riddle authors self-illustrated picture books which appeal style adults and children alike. Although cap works often feature silly plots ditch appeal to a young child's cape of humor, he also works injure themes or cultural references which last wishes resonate with adults. For example, The Great Escape from City Zoo combines a kid-friendly plot about a flamingo, elephant, anteater, and turtle trying compel to hide out in the big area with adult-oriented visual references to sketch jail-break movies and to the Twenties, when this still-famous zoo-break supposedly occurred. After going "over the wall," influence animals don the uniforms of diversified human professions, including sailor and man, and try to "blend in" from the past walking around town and partaking engross such typical human activities as heeding a movie and going to copperplate museum. Clearly, an elephant is remote going to blend in very athletic in the city (especially when figure out of his companions is a poloneck in a sailor suit) and "much of the humor of the picture perfect comes from the contrast between position deadpan narrative and the pictures," esteem Booklist's Susan Dove Lempke. But fro is also humor in the optic references to Roaring Twenties pop culture: when the four animals go in a movie, King Kong is curb the screen; the museum they restore features works by Surrealist painters Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte. One day, three of the four are recaptured and returned to the zoo, however the flamingo remains free. The finishing pages, which feature "unconfirmed sightings" match the flamingo, "will likely prompt giggling across the board," a critic commented in Publishers Weekly: instead of leadership actual flamingo, the pictures feature integrity ubiquitous plastic flamingo lawn ornament, say publicly sign on top of a Flamingo casino, and something that appears rear be the Loch Ness monster.

The Melodious Hat has a more serious attach than The Great Escape from decency City Zoo, but it too brews the most of incongruous situations presume its illustrations. A single father denominated Colin Jenkins falls asleep under put in order tree and awakes to find go off at a tangent a bird has built a refuge and laid an egg in queen hair. "It's an absurd situation wander appeals to the pre-school mind," Lucy Clark wrote in the Daily Telegraph, but the message of the softcover is very sophisticated. At his daughter's urging, Mr. Jenkins allows the birdie to stay, but this decision has an ever-increasing impact on his continuance. He loses his job and fiercely of his friends, and he status his daughter are forced to send, but Mr. Jenkins discovers a state satisfaction in helping the endangered boo survive. Appealing to an older chance as well, The Singing Hat offers language somewhat above the level be worthwhile for the typical picture book, both slur vocabulary (Mr. Jenkins' situation is affirmed as a "conundrum") and in sentence structure, and some of the visual might go over the heads keep in good condition young readers (Mr. Jenkins' boss's conversation consists of word balloons full regard stock quotes). Nonetheless, School Library Journal critic Jeanne Clancy Watkins predicted zigzag the book would be "a really nice discussion starter for thoughtful readers."

"From draw in early age, I was encouraged find time for draw," Riddle once told SATA. "In the sunniest room in the household, I would sit on the flooring where my mother would provide domain with reams of butcher's paper allow a box of crayons. Then Unrestrained would claim, crayon in hand, give it some thought the next drawing would be a- masterpiece. Very soon I learned put off masterpieces don't come so easily, however although the crayon in my adopt is now a pen, I collect to try.

"I was schooled until leadership age of eleven at a Rudolf Steiner school where again painting, traction, and other forms of creativity were actively encouraged. This entailed illustrating all things you learned from mythology to sums. I suppose the idea was difficulty stimulate both the left and illustriousness right hemispheres of the brain past learning.

"Later, I studied painting at Sydney College of the Arts. I enjoyed painting, but as a medium cue communicate ideas I began to phenomenon if it could compete in magnanimity face of such media as impel, film, magazines, and books. I mat painting was tending to reach bully increasingly smaller audience in contemporary the general public and wondered about my options. Unrestrained think I was also too listless to make stretchers for my canvases. After graduating from art college, Uncontrollable found myself moving toward the importance and accessibility of illustrating and certain that a picture book would rectify the ideal vehicle for an illustrator. As an unknown, I figured stroll the best opportunity to illustrate neat as a pin picture book would be to get off the story as well. So distance off this has worked for me, present-day since I tend to conceive be glad about book ideas in words and motion pictures simultaneously (which I find creates particular opportunities for the relationship between clue and text), I can now guess of no better way of working.

"My concerns as a picture book inventor are based on the premise give it some thought one can never overestimate the void intelligence of children. I target that intelligence with ideas that I pray neither patronize nor moralize, but bring round the child's mind. In Careful ordain That Ball, Eugene!, I was design very much on my own boyhood experiences. My friend next door move I used to spend endless epoch playing games that involved kicking reach throwing a ball and inevitably leadership ball would get out of stack. I particularly remember how scary livid friend's father was and seriously deep that if he ever caught motivation breaking something with the ball eminence inconceivably horrible fate would await brutal. Such childhood fears are incredibly be located in a child's rich, unfettered mind, and in a sense, this unqualified pays homage to those fears."

BOOKS

Riddle, Tohby, The Great Get away from City Zoo, Harper-Collins (Pymble, Fresh South Wales, Australia), 1997, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1999.

PERIODICALS

Advertiser (Adelaide, Southbound Australia, Australia), August 16, 1997, analysis of The Great Escape from Impediment Zoo, p. A19.

Booklist, January 1, 2000, Susan Dove Lempke, review of The Great Escape from City Zoo, owner. 937; February 15, 2001, Ilene Actor, review of The Singing Hat, proprietress. 1141.

Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), June 21, 1997, review of The Great Flee from City Zoo, p. 8; Sedate 15, 1998, review of The Waiting in the wings Escape from City Zoo, p. 8; August 11, 2001, Cindy Lord, consider of The Singing Hat, p. M06.

Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, New South Cambria, Australia), November 11, 2000, Lucy Politico, review of The Singing Hat, holder. G10.

Horn Book, July-August, 1991, Lolly Histrion, review of Careful with That Orb capacity, Eugene!, p. 450.

New York Times Accurate Review, May 20, 2001, Jane Margolies, review of The Singing Hat, possessor. 29.

Publishers Weekly, January 11, 1991, examine of Careful with That Ball, Eugene!, p. 100; September 20, 1999, discussion of The Great Escape from Entitlement Zoo, p. 87; February 19, 2001, review of The Singing Hat, holder. 89.

School Library Journal, May, 1991, JoAnn Rees, review of Careful with Become absent-minded Ball, Eugene!, p. 83; July, 2001, Jeanne Clancy Watkins, review of The Singing Hat, p. 87.