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Donovan Bixley


Born
Perth, Australia
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Children's Books


Donovan Bixley is an award-winning illustrator and book designer based in Taupo.

He has illustrated over 80 books across a broad range of genres, from his best-selling preschool books The Wheels on the Bus (2010) and Old MacDonald’s Farm (2011), to his wordless book about extreme climate change, The Weather Machine, his hybrid comic/novel Monkey Boy, and his illustrated biography Faithfully Mozart, which was a finalist in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Donovan has also worked with top New Zealand authors: recreating Dashing Dog by New Zealand’s world famous Margaret Mahy; illustrating two of Barry Crump’s Pungapeople books, co-creating the internationally acclaimed Dinosaur Rescue series with Kyle Mewburn, and illustrating The Thre ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 1,501 ratings · 312 reviews · 100 distinct works • Similar authors
Dogfight (1) (Flying Furballs)
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Much Ado About Shakespeare
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Faithfully Mozart. The fant...
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Monkey Boy
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Hot Air
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Old MacDonald's Farm
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Unmasked
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The Wheels on the Bus
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Dogfight (1) Hot Air Unmasked Most Wanted (4) Nine Lives Kit-napped
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“Despite being one of the greatest musical geniuses, he disdained high-brow musical jargon. Instead music was a living thing, something to be pranced about the room, or taken for a little stroll.”
― Donovan Bixley, Faithfully Mozart. The fantastical world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
tags: genius, mozart, new-zealand-author
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