Steve Augarde (born 3 October 1950) is a British author and artist. He has written and illustrated several novels for children and young adults as well as over seventy picture books for younger children, including pop-up books for which he designed the paper engineering. He also designed and illustrated the Little Red Car books by Matthew Price, among others.
Biography Steven Andre Augarde was born in 1950 in Birmingham and spent many years in the West Country before moving to Yorkshire. He attended Yeovil School of Art, Somerset College of Art, and Rolle Teacher Training College.Steve Augarde at Encyclopedia.com As well as producing his own books, he has worked as an illustrator and paper engineer for other authors and artists. He also provided the artwork and music for two series of the animated BBC television show Bump about a clumsy young elephant.Random House biography He is a semi-pro jazz musician, playing double bass for the Gents, a four-piece jazz group.Steve Augarde: Music
Augarde's more recent work has been aimed at older children and young adults. The Touchstone Trilogy is a subtle fantasy which depicts fairy folk as reclusive tribes largely without magic.Review of The Various from The Guardian X Isle is a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller.X Isle at Goodreads Leonardo da Vinci combines fiction and non-fiction, revealing the life and art of Leonardo da Vinci partly through the journal of a young apprentice.Lifelines: Leonard da Vinci at Pan Macmillan
The Various won a Smarties award in 2003Review of Winter Wood in The Independent and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award.The Branford Boase award, Times Educational Supplement All three books of the Touchstone Trilogy and X Isle have been nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Selected bibliography
Touchstone Trilogy The Various (2005) Celandine (2006) Winter Wood (2008)
Others X Isle (2009) Lifelines: Leonardo da Vinci (2009)
Picture books Pig (1975) Barnaby Shrew, Black Dan and the Mighty Wedgwood (1979) Bump's Umbrella (1992) Tractor Trouble (1997) Fire Engine to the Rescue (1998) When I Grow Up... (2000) Vroom, Vroom! (2002) Kissing Fish (2002)
References
External links
Steve Augarde at Fantastic Fiction
An Interview with Steve Augarde, by Dolores D'Annolfo, Eclectica Magazine, Oct/Nov 2007