by Gavin Bishop
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Lyrics to ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’, Henry Hall.
Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies or The Missing Pearl Necklace,
Alice B. Emerson, Cupples & Leon Company, 1915.
Note: The word ‘lisle’ (lisle stockings) is pronounced as ‘lyall.’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gavin Bishop is a highly acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator. Born in Invercargill, he spent his childhood in the remote railway settlement of Kingston on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Studying under Russell Clark and Rudi Gopas, Gavin graduated from the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts with an honours degree in painting. He taught art at Linwood High School (now Linwood College) and at Christ’s College in Christchurch.
He won the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2000, and has also won numerous other fellowships and national book awards. His book The House that Jack Built won the Book of the Year and Best Picture Book at the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards 2000. Weaving Earth and Sky won the non-fiction section and the Book of the Year Award of the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards 2003, and was shortlisted for the LIANZA Elsie Lock Medal in 2003. He has won the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration four times. Among his successful partnerships has been that with writer Joy Cowley, with whom he won the Best in Junior Fiction and Book of the Year at the 2008 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards for Snake and Lizard.
The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration was established in 2009 to encourage emergent illustrators and to acknowledge Gavin’s contribution to the writing and illustrating of children’s picture books. In 2013 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors, and he was the recipient of the 2013 Arts Foundation Mallinson Rendel Illustrator’s Award. Gavin’s artwork has featured in exhibitions internationally, including Japan and Czechoslovakia. He has written and designed two ballets for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company: Terrible Tom and Te Maia and the Sea Devil. In 2003, during the Ursula Bethell Residency, he wrote and illustrated Giant Jimmy Jones, the world’s first three-dimensional animated picture book for HITLab at the University of Canterbury.
See more about Gavin at www.gavinbishop.com.
PIANO ROCK
This charming award-winning book is a memoir of Gavin Bishop’s idyllic childhood days, growing up in Kingston beside gorgeous Lake Wakatipu. It’s a gentle tale of a boyhood spent haring around outside, building huts, eating girdle scones, catching eels, watching the train, eating roast mutton, going to school on a horse, arguing with his best mate, eating Marmite sandwiches, Guy Fawkes Day — and lots more eating.
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Design: Carla Sy
Illustrations: Gavin Bishop
Printed in China by RR Donnelly
Some of the passages from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies that appear in this book have been modified from the original.
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