Record ID:
35047968 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1947
  • Wonthaggi, Victoria
Lived/located in:
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Occupations:
  • Writer
  • Illustrator
Used for:
  • Honey, Elizabeth
  • Honey, Liz, 1947-
  • Octon, Henni
  • Also writes as Henni Octon (Fictional character).
Notes:
  • Elizabeth Honey grew up on a dairy farm in Wonthaggi, Victoria. She studied film and television at Swinburne College of Technology in Melbourne, where she completed a Diploma in Film and Television. After marriage to her fellow student, Andrew Clarke, a graphic designer, in 1969, Honey worked for ABC television and for advertising agencies. She has worked for advertising agencies both large (George Pattersons) and small (Haysoms) as art director, freelance designer and illustrator in London and Melbourne. She also worked as a script assistant and in continuity on the film The Naked Bunyip. During the 1970s she travelled to Europe, the USA and South America several times and lived and worked in London for two years. Honey has illustrated a wide variety of publications including reading schemes such as Cheshire's Trend, Macmillan's Southern Cross series and information books. She has been successful as both a writer of picture books, poetry, and novels for younger readers and as an illustrator for her own and others' texts. Of her own style, Elizabeth Honey writes, 'I've got a jokey style, a serious style, and a Norman Lindsay style'. Honey's work is characteristically humorous and inventive, and features outspoken characters. She is known for her insights into children and she has noted that her two children are inspirational to her work. Several of her books have been Honour Books and won awards, which include Australian children's choice awards YABBA and CROW. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%2c{f
  • nuc90-50325: Her Princess Beatrice and the rotten robber, 1988 (hdg. on CaBVaU rept.: Honey, Elizabeth; usage: Elizabeth Honey)
  • Honey sandwich, 1993 title page (Elizabeth Honey) Australian CIP data (Honey, Elizabeth, 1947- )
  • 45 ₊ 47 Stella Street and everything that happened title page ("Henni Octon" appears to be a fictitious name) title page verso (... Elizabeth Honey)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)3300
  • 000000048225
  • abv02031231
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX135040
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc