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About Us
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Steering Group |
The In the Picture steering group is:
Beth Cox, Educational Sales and Liaison Coordinator, Child's Play (International) Publishers Ltd.
Joyce Dunbar, author of over 70 children’s books.
Dianne Lorriman, illustrator and qualified primary SEN teacher.
Jane Ray, children’s illustrator.
Kathy Saunders, children's literature consultant.
Alexandra Strick, freelance consultant and project manager working on projects such as Bookmark, the Quentin Blake Award and Bookstart.
Beth Cox is the Educational Sales and Liaison Coordinator at Child's Play (International) Ltd. Her role(s) comprises many different aspects, ranging from direct liaison with teachers and parents at exhibitions to editorial support and research.
As an ex primary school teacher (Beth taught in Hounslow and Vietnam) she is able to provide editorial input based on her personal educational background and experience and in regards to current educational practice and theory. www.childs-play.com
Joyce is the author of over seventy books for children, translated into many languages. Her Mouse and Mole series was made into a TV animation with the voices of Alan Bennet and Richard Briers. Joyce is a lip reader and has written several stories about deaf children: Mundo and the Weather Child, a novel, was runner up for the Guardian award in 1986, and more recently Moonbird, a picture book, illustrated by Jane Ray, was the Sunday Times Book of the Week. She is perhaps best known for Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep.
She was for many years a teacher of literature in Further Education and for the past seven years has been a creative writing facilitator on the holistic Greek island of Skyros. She is currently a RLF Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
Di's humorous illustrations appear in several children's books, particularly teaching publications. Fellow of the Nottingham Society of Artists and a qualified teacher, Di runs Watercolour Improver classes and leads a variety of workshops in South Derbyshire. She also runs courses in Watercolour and Cartooning for Knuston Hall Residential College in Northamptonshire.
For many years Di has been dedicated to inclusion for primary children with learning disabilities; she has only recently retired from her post as Area Manager for Special Educational Needs for South Derbyshire County Council.
Jane has been illustrating books for children for nearly 20 years now and continues to find the process fascinating and challenging. She recently illustrated Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar, published by Transworld in 2006, a story about a little prince who is deaf. She illustrates a variety of stories from retellings of fairy tales, through ancient myths and legends to Shakespeare and has begun to write her own stories too (Can You Catch a Mermaid, pub. Orchard) She often works in schools doing workshops and talking about illustration. She is currently on the Childrens Writers and Illustrators Group committee (Society of Authors). www.janeray.com
Kathy Saunders is an independent scholar. She was educated at a school for physically disabled children and became a medical bioscientist. Then, as a disabled mother, she found story time with her own young children often involved talking about how the experience of disability in real life varied from that implied in children's resources.
She combined being a school governor, classroom helper and children's book reviewer with a wide experience of managing disability in her book Happy Ever Afters (Trentham Books, 2000), written to help teachers and parents explain the cultural and personal impact on children of disability portrayals in children's books. She is also co-editor of a collection of academic papers on Disability Culture in Children's Literature published in Disability Studies Quarterly (2004). She is active in the Disabled Parents Network, local disability organisations and enjoys researching disability history.
She lives in Kings Lynn with her husband and two teenage daughters. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/happyeverafters/
Whilst at university, Alex gained experience in play/youth work and teaching English in France before joining a national charity managing children's publications, events and activities. She then moved to Booktrust to head up their children's literature activity. She reviewed regularly for the Guardian, managed "Bookstart" as it developed into a national programme and became deputy executive director of Booktrust in 1999.
Five years ago she moved on to manage projects involving and empowering disabled children. Alex now works as a freelance consultant/project manager on a range of activities around children, books and disability. These include Bookmark [the online resource regarding books and disability], Bookstart [as the scheme's disability consultant] and Outside In [children's literature in translation]. She recently managed the Roald Dahl Foundation Quentin Blake Award project to collect children's views of disability issues in books and is currently working with Booktrust to build on the findings of this project. She is also a freelance photographer. http://www.booktrust.org.uk/ and http://www.alex.strick.co.uk
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