JOHN
NICHOLSON
'The
books that caught my imagination as a young child were about things
that had really happened, about exotic places that really existed
... I'm aiming my books at kids who find the world of the imagination
unconvincing, but can be drawn into reading by the drama of real
life.' John Nicholson, who now lives in the Victorian bush, worked
as an architect, graphic designer and illustrator before beginning
to write and illustrate children's books in 1990. He has written
extensively on various aspects of Australian life - Explorers
of Australia, A Home Among the Gum Trees, Gold, Fishing
For Islands and Who's Running this Country? A number
of his books have been short-listed for the CBC Eve Pownall award
for information books and The First Fleet was the winning
book in this category in 1996. John has also contributed two titles
to the True Stories series - Kimberley Warrior and The
Cruellest Place on Earth, and his latest titles include State
of the Planet, The Building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and The
Mighty Murray.
  
John focuses
his talks on illustration skills with the help of slides and
then discusses how to research a topic, followed by a run-down
of the printing and publishing processes.
Oh , and by
the way, his favourite colour is yellow and his lucky number
is 276.
More information
can be found at the Allen
and Unwin site.
 
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