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Bruce Treloar Bruce Treloar i(A44405 works by)
Born: Established: 1946 Hamilton, Waikato, North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1977
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BiographyHistory

Children's author and illustrator Bruce Treloar divides his time between teaching illustration, painting and exhibiting in galleries, conducting picture book workshops for children and writing and illustrating books for them. His early books reflect his love of Norfolk Island which he first visited in 1960. He has illustrated his own books and that of other writers. Treloar's exhibition work includes paintings of maritime subjects.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Bumble's Dream London : Bodley Head , 1981 Z836347 1981 single work picture book children's 'Mr Bumble collected junk. He collected everything and none of it seemed to the neighbours to be fit for anything. But Mr Bumble took no notice of the neighbours. He had a dream - that one day he would have enough junk to build a flying machine.'(Libraries Australia record).
1982 commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
1979 joint inaugural highly commended Webber's Award for an Unpublished Picture Book
y separately published work icon Bumble's Dream London : Bodley Head , 1981 Z836347 1981 single work picture book children's 'Mr Bumble collected junk. He collected everything and none of it seemed to the neighbours to be fit for anything. But Mr Bumble took no notice of the neighbours. He had a dream - that one day he would have enough junk to build a flying machine.'(Libraries Australia record).
1982 commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
1979 joint inaugural highly commended Webber's Award for an Unpublished Picture Book
y separately published work icon Marty Moves to the Country Sydney : Methuen Australia , 1980 Z667643 1980 single work picture book children's
1981 highly commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
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