Gavin Bishop
Gavin Bishop ONZM, is an author and illustrator, from Invercargill, New Zealand. He is known for illustrating books from prominent New Zealand authors, including Joy Cowley and Margaret Mahy. Bishop's first published picture book was Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant, published in 1981 by Oxford University Press.
Bishop worked as a high school art teacher for thirty years, before writing and illustrating children's books full-time.Select honours and awards
- 2018 - Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award for Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story at the New Zealand Children's Book Awards
- 2013 – Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Children's Literature.
- 2013 – Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award
- 2013, 2000, 1994, 1983 – New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, winner of the picture book category.
- 2010, 2008, 2006, 1982 – LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration.
- 2000 – Margaret Mahy Medal for Services to Children's Literature.
- 1984 – Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations, Grand Prize.
Select bibliography
- 2018 – Cook's Cook Limited Edition, 40pp,
- 2018 - Cook's Cook, 40pp,
- 2017 - Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story
- 2017 - Helper and Helper, 128pp,
- 2010 – Counting the Stars: Four Maori Myths
- 2010 – Friends: Snake & Lizard, Joy Cowley, Gecko Press
- 2010 – Cowshed Christmas
- 2010 – There Was a Crooked Man
- 2009 – Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood
- 2008 – Rats!
- 2008 – Snake & Lizard
- 2007 – Riding the Waves: four Maori Myths
- 2006 – Te Waka
- 2006 – Kiwi Moon
- 2005 – Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths
- 2004 – The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- 2002 – Tom Thumb
