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Adrienne Kennaway

アドリアンヌ・ケナウェイ

Adrienne Kennaway

Aliases: Adrienne Moore / Adrienne Prudence Moore

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1945-01-01 （Kenya）
Died
2025-09-12 （Church of Ireland Cemetery, Templenoe, Co Kerry, Ireland） age 80
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Kenya → All over the world → County Kerry, Ireland

Career

Occupations
illustrator, writer of children's picture books
Active Years
1966-2025

Awards

Kate Greenaway Medal
1987
Work: Crafty Chameleon
Organization: Library Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Crafty Chameleon

1987 Children's picture book 32 pages

Chameleon uses craft to get the better of Leopard and Crocodile. Illustrated with vivid watercolour pictures of African wildlife.

animal folk-talesAfrican wildlifecraftiness

Greedy Zebra

1984 Children's picture book 32 pages

Relates how the animals of the world, once all a dull color, acquired their furs and spots and stripes and horns, and how Zebra's greedy appetite caused him to get his particular coloring.

origin of animal patternsgreed

Hot Hippo

1986 Children's picture book 32 pages

Story of the hippo.

animal folk-tale

Bibliography

  • Game Park Holiday
  • The Elephant's Heart and other stories
  • Greedy Zebra
  • Hot Hippo
  • Crafty Chameleon
  • Tricky Tortoise
  • Lazy Lion
  • Baby Baboon
  • Hungry Hyena
  • Laughing Giraffe
  • Awful Aardvark
  • Curious Clownfish
  • Bushbaby
  • Little Elephant's Walk

Style & Themes

Literary Style
vivid watercolour illustrationsanimal folk-tales
Recurring Motifs
African wildlifeanimal cleverness

Legacy

Known for winning the 1987 Kate Greenaway Medal, famous for children's picture books featuring vivid illustrations of African animals. Her upbringing in Kenya influenced her early work.

Trivia

  • Grew up all over the world.
  • Raised partly in Kenya, influencing early works.
  • Early works published by East African Publishing House.