Pamela Allen
, b. 1934
Pamela Allen was born in Devonport, in Auckland, New Zealand in 1934. She moved to Australia with her painter husband in 1980, and returned to Auckland over thirty years later. She trained as a fine artist at the Elam School of Arts, in New Zealand. Her first picture book was Mr Archimedes’ Bath, the first of a series of picture books about aspects of water displacement theory (Who Sank The Boat? and Alexander’s Outing followed soon after). Allen has built a distinguished career as a writer and illustrator of picture books. She has received numerous awards, for individual books, including several Book of the Year Awards from the Children’s Book Council of Australia, two New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Margaret Mahy Medal, New Zealand’s most prestigious award for children’s literature.
Sources:
Profile at the bookcouncil.org.nz (accessed: June 3, 2018).
Profile at the thelittlebigbookclub.com.au (accessed: June 3, 2018).
Profile at the storylines.org.nz (accessed: June 3, 2018).
Bio prepared by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, ehale@une.edu.au
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