Felstead, Cathie 1954-

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Felstead, Cathie 1954-

Personal

Born 1954, in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England; partner of Paul Tucker; children. Education: Chelsea School of Art, degree (graphic design); Royal College of Art, M.F.A. (illustration), 1980.

Addresses

Home—Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England.

Career

Illustrator of books for children. Creator of art and design for advertising campaigns, packaging, posters, greeting cards, theatre, and television. Exhibitions: Work exhibited at Curwen Gallery, London, England, and other galleries in United Kingdom.

Awards, Honors

Berger Prize; RCA traveling scholarship; Bronze Award, B&H Gold competition; Mother Goose Award runner up, for A Caribbean Dozen; three Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold awards.

Illustrator

John Agard and Grace Nichols, editors, A Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1994.

Judy Allen, editor, Anthology for the Earth, Walker Books (London, England), 1997.

Creepy Crawlies (pop-up book), HarperCollins (London, England), 1997.

Egg Surprise (pop-up book), Barron's Educational Series (Hauppauge, NY), 1997.

Jumpers (pop-up book), Barron's Educational Series (Hauppauge, NY), 1997.

Seashore (pop-up book), Barron's Educational Series (Hauppauge, NY), 1997.

Andrew Maxwell Hislop, editor, A Book of Hearts, Exley (New York, NY), 1998.

Reeve Lindbergh, The Circle of Days, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1998.

A Walker Treasury of First Rhymes, Walker Books (London, England), 1999.

Brian Patten, The Blue and Green Ark, Scholastic Press (London, England), 1999.

Bill Martin, Adam, Adam, What Do You See?, Tommy Nelson (Nashville, TN), 2000.

Shirley Tulloch, Who Made Me?, Augsburg (Minneapolis, MN), 2000.

Sharon Phillips Denslow, Big Wolf and Little Wolf, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2000.

Donna Jo Napoli, Flamingo Dream, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Lisa Westberg Peters, Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2003.

Lola M. Schaefer, An Island Grows, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Jody Fickes Shapiro, Family Lullaby, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor of illustrations to books, including South and North, East and West: The Oxfam Book of Children's Stories, edited by Michael Rosen, Walker Books (London, England), 1992; Under the Moon and Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems, edited by John Agard and Grace Nichols, Walker Books, 2002; and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Walker Books, 2005.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, December 1, 1994, Julie Corsaro, review of A Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets, p. 665; April, 1998, Susan Dove Lempke, review of The Circles of Days, p. 1325; April 15, 2000, Hazel Rochman, review of Who Made Me?, p. 1554; May 1, 2000, Carolyn Phelan, review of Big Wolf and Little Wolf, p. 1676; April 15, 2002, Ilene Cooper, review of Flamingo Dream, p. 1408; November 15, 2003, Carolyn Phelan, review of Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up, p. 596; July 1, 2006, Carolyn Phelan, review of An Island Grows, p. 68.

Horn Book, July-August, 2002, Kitty Flynn, review of Flamingo Dream, p. 450; September-October, 2006, Danielle J. Ford, review of An Island Grows, p. 610.

Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2002, review of Flamingo Dream, p. 421; December 15, 2002, review of Under the Moon and Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems, p. 1844; June 1, 2006, review of An Island Grows, p. 579; April 15, 2007, review of Family Lullaby.

Publishers Weekly, November 28, 1994, review of A Caribbean Dozen, p. 62; March 23, 1998, review of Circle of Days, p. 95; December 20, 1999, review of Who Made Me?, p. 78; May 15, 2000, review of Big Wolf and Little Wolf, p. 116; March 11, 2002, review of Flamingo Dream, p. 72; May 21, 2007, review of Family Lullaby, p. 53.

School Library Journal, May, 2000, Laura Santoro, review of Big Wolf and Little Wolf, p. 140; August, 2000, Patricia Pearl Dole, review of Who Made Me?, p. 166; December, 2000, Patricia Pearl Dole, "What Do You See?," p. 134; May, 2002, Wendy Lukehart, review of Flamingo Dream, p. 124; September, 2003, Cris Riedel, review of Earthshake, p. 204; July, 2006, Heide Piehler, review of An Island Grows, p. 87; July, 2007, Amy Lilien-Harper, review of Family Lullaby, p. 84.