Record ID:
35047506 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18770117
  • Kent
Death:
  • 19691127
  • Sydney, New South Wales
Associated with:
  • England
  • Australia
  • Adelaide, South Australia
  • Perth, Western Australia
  • London
Occupations:
  • author
  • artist
Used for:
  • Kelly, Cecilia May Ossoli, 1877-1969
  • Gibbs, C. M. (Cecilia May), 1877-1969
  • Gibbs, Cecilia May, 1877-1969
Notes:
  • May Gibbs (1877-1969) came to Australia at the age of four. Even as a child May drew and painted‚ encouraged by her parents. She studied art‚ both in Western Australia and in England‚ before settling in Sydney to follow a successful career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Her most famous book‚ Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie‚ was published in 1918. Her bestselling series featuring the Gumnut babies‚ their friends and their foes‚ established an enduring mythology of the Australian bush for generations raised firmly on traditional European fairytales. In 1955‚ she received an MBE for her contribution to children’s literature. http://www.harpercollins.com.au/authors/50000033/May_Gibbs/index.aspx
  • The complete adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, 1946 t.p. (pictures & words by May Gibbs)
  • Gumnut babies, 2001 t.p. (May Gibbs)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)3220
  • abv02031096
  • 000000047761
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc