The Horror of Hickory Bay by Gavin Bishop

In an adjudicatory capacity, Bishop has sat on the panel for the Noma Concours competition multiple times, and has loaned his expertise to numerous artistic and literary festivals and workshops within New Zealand. Another ballet, Te Maia and the Sea Devil, ensued in 1987. In 1985 he was commissioned to write and design a ballet for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company - the result of which was Terrible Tom, which toured the country for 18 months. The book was republished by Scholastic in 2014.

Produced in Dunedin by TVNZ's Natural History Unit, now NHNZ, Bidibidi follows the adventures of a sheep on a South Island station for two series. Since then, his distinctive ink and watercolour illustrations have appeared alongside his original texts and those of critically acclaimed New Zealand authors, and accompanied his retellings of traditional folktales, fables and Māori legend.īishop's illustrations have been exhibited at international shows from Japan to Czechoslovakia, and he has appeared as a teacher and guest speaker at many international forums.īidibidi (Oxford University Press) was first published in 1982 and adapted to a television series of the same name, which first aired in 1990. Born in Invercargill, Bishop went on to attend the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts, graduating with Honours in 1967. He has won numerous national and international awards. Bishop, Gavin (1946 - ) is a children's book author and illustrator.

The Horror of Hickory Bay by Gavin Bishop