Kathryn Cave

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Kathryn Cave (born 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England) is a British children's book author. She was awarded the very first international UNESCO prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance for Something Else.^[1] The book was later made into a TV comic series by TV Loonland. A theatre company, Tall Stories, has adapted Something Else as a children's production, and they ran a UK tour in Autumn 2009.

She has three children, Eleanor, Joseph, and Alice, and six grandchildren. Kathryn has previously worked as an editor for Penguin and Basil Blackwell, and she currently works under contract for Frances Lincoln, an independent publishing house in North London.^[2]

She lives in Hampstead, North London.^[2]

Books[]

• Dragonrise (1984)
• Just My Luck (1987)
• Poor Little Mary (1989)
• (1990)
• Running Battles (1992)
• (1994)
• Best Friends for Ever (1994)
• (1995)
• (1996)
• (1999)
• (2000)
• (2001)
• (2002)

Picture books[]

• Out for the Count (1991) illustrated by Chris Riddell
• Something Else (1994) illustrated by Chris Riddell
• Horatio Happened (1998) illustrated by Chris Riddell
• W is for World (1998) illustrated by Oxfam
• Henry's Song (2000) illustrated by Sue Hendra
• The Boy Who Became an Eagle (2000) illustrated by
• The Brave Little Grork (2002) illustrated by
• One Child, One Seed (2002) illustrated by Oxfam
• You've Got Dragons (2003) illustrated by
• That's What Friends Do (2004) illustrated by
• Friends (2005) illustrated by

Awards[]

• 1997 Die Kinder- und Jugendbuchliste (RB/SR) in Germany for Something Else
• 1997 UNESCO prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance for Something Else

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