Alan Baker has won the Benson and Hedges illustrators gold award, Gold Creative Circle award, Silver Campaign Press award. IRA/CBC. Childrens Choice award and was a Flair Creative match winner. He has also written and illustrated over 40 books of his own, six of which have been chosen for the book of the year list. These include the Little Rabbit series which have sold over 750,000 copies to date worldwide. White Rabbit’s color book was a 2008 IBBY choice.He also illustrated ‘Both sides now’, by Joni Mitchell [ 1994 ‘Best Bug Book’ ], the Battle of bubble and squeak [ Philippa Pearce] 1979 whitbread winner, Louis de Bernieres ‘Red dog’ [2002 V&A nomination] and Hairy Tales and nursery Crimes- no 1 best seller 1985. Over the years his work has been selected for the Best of British, and Best of European illustration annuals. More recently he has been producing illustrations for the Guardian wall charts.
Websites:
- http://issuu.com/markmcgough/docs/alan_baker_issuu_1
- http://www.illustrationweb.com/AlanBaker
- http://www.behance.net/alanbaker
- http://www.findschoolworkshops.co.uk/Author-Illustrator-Visit/Alan-Baker-l377.html
- http://www.childrensillustrators.com/abaker
- http://folioplanet.com/cgibin/search.cgi?isValidated=Yes&bool=and&substring=1&mh=25&query=Baker,+Alan&query2;.x=14&query2;.y=14
- http://www.saahub.com/artist_results.asp?artistId=2400
- http://www.illustrator.org.uk/artist/Alan_Baker/65
- http://www.contact-creative.com/browse.php?ltr=B&i=1#378
- http://www.directoryofillustration.com/ArtistPortfolioThumbs.aspx?AID=3786
- http://www.stockillustrations.com/search.asp?searchtext=00024,+Alan&page=0&searchtype=new
- There's a very interesting interview with the fabulous Alan Baker at
- http://tinyurl.com/y9r9q8h
- Animations/Films
- http://www.youtube.com/user/AlanBBaker?feature=mhee