
The Illustrator's Notebook (Mohieddin Ellabbad, 1999)Ģ. Sahar Abdallah – Children's books illustrator, Egyptġ. Dick Whittington and His Cat (Marcia Brown, 1950) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Anonymous, translation by Richard Francis Burton, 1888)ġ0. The Railway Children (Edith Nesbit, 1906)ĩ. The Panchatantra (Anonymous / folk, -200)Ĩ. Raymie Nightingale (Kate DiCamillo, 2016)ħ. According to Jennings (Anthony Buckeridge, 1954)Ħ. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)Ģ. One respondent asked for their ballot not to be published.įull list of votes by critic, in alphabetical order:ġ. These respondents have fewer than 10 books listed under their name. Some did not respond by the deadline, so we eliminated their own books and re-ranked their other choices. Note: Some respondents voted for their own books and were invited to choose a replacement as we did not allow this. The 21st Century’s greatest children’s books Why Where the Wild Things Are is the greatest children’s book Read more about BBC Culture's 100 greatest children's books: The book with the greatest number of points won, and books with more individual votes in total ranked higher.

We awarded 10 points per first ranked book, nine per second ranked book, and so on down to one. Each expert voted for 10 books, ranking them 1 (favourite) to 10 (10th favourite). In total 177 authors, illustrators, journalists, academics and industry figures from 56 countries responded. Jones has been married to photographer and editor Halldor Enard since 2003. “Standing next to him is like being at the spa,” she says.BBC Culture polled experts on their greatest children's books of all time. When asked about Overtone, Jones told The Los Angeles Times “We’ve always wanted to be funny and deep and to look at the unseen things.” When asked about Shepard, who had an affair with singer Patti Smith during their marriage, Jones stated that they did not keep in touch: “My ego just gets so rubbed the wrong way and slurred by other people’s projections.” One publication wrote that “Jones has, in fact, done as much to advance the cause of singing plays as Leonard Bernstein.” Their work has been performed in S.F., L.A., and in New York at the Kurt Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall.” On Jones’ website, Overtone is described as “an innovative group of composers, writers and performers who have been exploring new music theatre for over 20 years. Jones and her best friend/writing partner Kathleen Cramer founded Overtone Industries in 1979. She is Founder & Artistic Director of Overtone Industries

That impressed me, how he included everybody in the process.”ĥ. He also respected each member of the cast, including the extras, and had expectations of all of us. She also spoke on The Truman Show director Peter Weir, saying “ was great at creating and maintaining the atmosphere. There is something very inspiring about how he uses his intuition. “Tim Burton’s fantastic,” she said, “The most important thing I’ve learned from him is his amazing intuition.
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In a 2010 interview with Movie Dearest, Jones discussed the process of working with such acclaimed filmmakers. Jones has also appeared on televisions shows like Seinfeld and The X-Files, but her most prominent collaborator onscreen has been director Tim Burton, who cast her in Edward Scissorhands (1990), Mars Attacks! (1996), and most recently, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016). She made her screen debut in the television flick A Death in Canaan (1978), and has since appeared in a number of beloved and classic films, including The Right Stuff (1983), Married to the Mob (1988), Pacific Heights (1990), Natural Born Killers (1994) and The Truman Show (1998).
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Though her marriage to Shepard came to an end in 1984, Jones continues to find success in Hollywood.
