Joan G. Robinson

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Joan Mary Gale Robinson (born Thomas ; born February 10, 1910 in Gerrards Cross , Buckinghamshire , England , † August 20, 1988 in King's Lynn , Norfolk ) was an English children's and youth author and illustrator . She grew up as the second of four children of a lawyer in Hampstead Garden Suburb near London (now a borough of London). She attended a total of seven schools, but did not graduate.

In 1939 she began to write children's books, later books for young people, which she also illustrated herself. Together with her husband, she has published over 30 books. Her best-known works include Back then with Marie ( When Marnie Was There ), Mary-Mary and Teddy Robinson . The Teddy Robinson tales were based on stories Joan told her daughter Deborah. Her teddy bear of the same name played the main role in it.

Marnie was filmed as an anime in 2014 under the title Omoide no Mānī (思 い 出 の マ ー ニ ー) by Studio Ghibli in Japan (director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi , producers: Yoshiaki Nishimura and Toshio Suzuki ).

Works (selection)

  • Back then with Marnie: Happy Holidays by the Sea, 1969 (Original title: When Marnie Was There, 1967)
  • Mary-Mary, 1960
  • The Strange Strange Girl, 1971 (Original title: Charley )
  • My Teddy Muck, 1960 (Original title: Teddy Robinson )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.
  2. ↑ Joan Gale Robinson Papers . The deGrummond Children's Literature Collection. July 2001. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ Noonan, Barry (Ed.): Death Notices from The Times, 1982–1988. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005.
  4. ↑ Kirkpatrick, DL (Ed.): Twentieth-Century Children's Writers . St. Martin's Press, New York 1978, ISBN 0-312-82413-0 , pp. 1066-1068.

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personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Joan G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Joan Mary Gale (full name); Thomas, Joan Mary Gale (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author and illustrator for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerrards Cross
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1988