Gregory Rogers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian illustrator of picture books
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Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
About Gregory Rogers
- Gregory John Rogers (19 June 1957 – 1 May 2013) was an illustrator and writer of children's books, especially picture books.
- He was the first Australian to win the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.
- The book was Way Home by the Australian writer Libby Hathorn, published in the U.K.
- by Andersen Press in 1994.
- In the unnamed city, a boy makes his way home at night and adopts a stray cat en route.
- The "picture book for older readers" was controversial on grounds both that it was "hardboiled" and that it "romanticised the plight of the homeless".
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