A stunning biography of the classic bestselling children’s author Judith Kerr – creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea. The perfect illustrated gift book
Judith Kerr OBE was born in Berlin. Her family left Germany in 1933
to escape the rising Nazi party, and came to England. She studied
at the Central School of Art and later worked as a scriptwriter for
the BBC.
Judith married the celebrated screenwriter Nigel Kneale in 1954.
She left the BBC to look after their two children, who inspired her
first picture book, The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Published in 1968
and never out of print in the fifty years since, it has become a
much-loved classic and perennial bestseller.
Judith was awarded the Booktrust Lifetime Achievement Award in
2016, and in 2019 was named Illustrator of the Year at the British
Book Awards. Judith died in May 2019 at the age of 95, and her
stories continue to entertain and delight generations of children.
“… captures the colourful innocence of the 1950s and 1960s, with its harlequin tights, squat stoves and fathers in hats…Kerr’s world is one in which the small and lost come to be treasured.” – The Times “176 large, beautiful pages of nostalgia for anyone who has been a child in the past half century.” – The Independent
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