David Elliot

David Elliot is an illustrator and author who has achieved international success. After working as a zookeeper (Edinburgh Zoo), dishwasher (the Antarctic), interior designer and art teacher, in 1998 he became a full-time illustrator. David is a graduate of the Christchurch College of Education, and earned a Fine Arts Diploma from the University of Canterbury. Dragon Tangle won the 1991 Unilever/Choysa Award and was a finalist for the 1995 Russell Clark Award. In 2000 he won the Honour Award in...See more

David Elliot is an illustrator and author who has achieved international success. After working as a zookeeper (Edinburgh Zoo), dishwasher (the Antarctic), interior designer and art teacher, in 1998 he became a full-time illustrator. David is a graduate of the Christchurch College of Education, and earned a Fine Arts Diploma from the University of Canterbury. Dragon Tangle won the 1991 Unilever/Choysa Award and was a finalist for the 1995 Russell Clark Award. In 2000 he won the Honour Award in the picture book category in the New Zealand Post Children s Book Awards for Sydney and the Sea Monster, while Sydney and the Whalebird was Highly Commended in the Best Illustration Category of the 2001 Spectrum Print Book Design Awards, and in 2003 his Pigtails the Pirate won the New Zealand Post Children s Picture Book Award, was shortlisted for the 2003 LIANZA Russell Clark Award, and was a 2003 Storylines Notable Picture Book. Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun (written by Janet Frame) won the 2006 Children s Book Award at the Spectrum Print Book Design Awards, and Chicken Feathers (written by Joy Cowley) was a finalist in the 2009 New Zealand See less