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Gillian McClure

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Gillian McClure’s career as an author and illustrator spans four decades. She has been Highly Commended in the Kate Greenaway Medal and won the US Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Books. Her books have been translated into many different languages.
Gillian has served on the CWIG committee, the Public Lending Right Advisory Committee, served as a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the universities of Kent and Essex, and has mentored emerging authors on the Escalator scheme. From 2010 - 2016 she also ran her own publishing company, Plaister Press, to celebrate the art of the picture book.

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Gillian McClure I do something completely different, preferably outdoors and I often find when I'm not thinking about anything, an idea pops into my head as if the br…moreI do something completely different, preferably outdoors and I often find when I'm not thinking about anything, an idea pops into my head as if the brain had been unravelling the problem in my absence.(less)
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Average rating: 3.81 · 265 ratings · 58 reviews · 32 distinct works
Selkie
3.87 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions
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The Land of the Dragon King...
3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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The Christmas Donkey
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Tom Finger
3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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Zoe's Boat
3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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What's the Time, Rory Wolf?
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions
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The Little White Sprite
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011
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Dog on Wheels at Sunny Sea
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Flood
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We're Going to Build a Dam
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“A greedy man can never learn the language of the sea.”
― Gillian McClure, Selkie
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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
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“A greedy man can never learn the language of the sea.”
― Gillian McClure, Selkie
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