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Joan Rankin

Joan Rankin

Joan Rankin

Joan Rankin has illustrated over twenty-five books for children. She received the South African HAUM Dann Retief Prize for children's book illustration in 1986 and the Katrina Harris Award for Children's Book Illustration in 1991. She has illustrated numerous books on the McElderry list, including A Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson and Off to First Grade by Louise Borden. Ms. Rankin lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, with her husband and three daughters.

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News Bites: Your Best Practices Could Make You a Winner!
School Library Journal, May 3, 2012
...published by a member of the organization. The winners are: Africa: Finding Aunt Joan by Jenny Hatton and Joan Rankin (Jacana Media); California/Hawaii: Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw, illus. by Eugene Yelchin (Holt); Southeast:...
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Times Live South Africa, March 26, 2012
...Books for R220 Swimming in the Sun Swimming in the Sun', 'Finding Aunt Joan' and 'Moving House' by Joan Rankin and illustrated by Joan Rankin (Jacana) THE delightful but fictional Lucy is the youngest child and protagonist of a new series of children's...
Foundation's Grant Is One for the Books
Lakeland Ledger, September 23, 2011
...1965, "A Wiff of Pine and a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems" by Deborah Ruddell and Joan Rankin; "We are in a Book: An Elephant and Piggy Book" by Mo Willems, the Theodore "Suess: Geisel Honor Books honoree; and "A Sick Day for Amos Mcgee" by Philip...
Enrolment plunge looming
Windsor Star, May 24, 2011
...they don't have a book in their hand of some sort," said the school's principal, Joan Rankin. Putting more books in classrooms isn't an adequate replacement for books in libraries, said Annie Kidder, executive director of People for Education, which...
The 2011 Jan Rabie Rapport Prize and Media24 Books Literary Awards Winners
Books LIVE, June 13, 2011
...MER Prize for best illustrated children’s book: Just Sisi / Net Sisi by Wendy Hartmann, illustrated by Joan Rankin After the prizegiving, the buzz amongst the cocktails and canapes was supplied mainly by three items: Alexander Strachan’s surprise...
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Books LIVE, June 12, 2011
...000 (I think that's the correct amount) # # livebooks …and the winners are… Wendy Hartmann and Joan Rankin, for Just Sisi / Net Sisi, published by Human & Rousseau # # livebooks …and we're starting with the MER Prize for illustrated children's...