Gina Calleja
Gina Calleja | |
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| Born | Jean Gadsby March 12, 1928 Lowestoft, England |
| Died | March 7, 2017 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | author and illustrator |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Joseph Calleja |
Gina Calleja, born Jean Gadsby, (March 12, 1928 – March 7, 2017) was an author and illustrator of children's books in Canada.[1]
Personal life and education[edit]
Calleja was born Jean Gadsby in Lowestoft, England.[2] She studied art at Reading University and London University's Slade School of Fine Art.[3]
She married Joseph Calleja, a painter and sculptor from Malta,[2] and the pair moved to Canada in 1958.
She died March 7, 2017.
Career[edit]
Calleja worked as a secondary school teacher in Toronto. In 1980, she created the illustrations for Caroline Beech's Peas again for lunch.[4] Soon after, she illustrated two of Frank Etherington's stories, The Spaghetti Word Race and Those Words.
Calleja created her first children's book as an author in 1983, entitled Tobo Hates Purple.[5] She continued to write and illustrate over the next two decades; her most recent book is Great Food for Happy Kids in 2001.
Publications[edit]
As author[edit]
As illustrator[edit]
- Peas Again for Lunch, 1980. [4]
- The Spaghetti Word Race, 1981
- Those Words, 1982
- Great Food for Happy Kids, 2001 [9]
References[edit]
- ^ Ontario. Provincial Library Service; Ontario. Libraries and Community Information Branch (1981). In Review : Canadian Books for Young People. Provincial Library Service. pp. 30–31.
- ^ a b Evelyn de Rostaing McMann (2003). Biographical Index of Artists in Canada. University of Toronto Press. pp. 36–. ISBN 978-0-8020-2790-0.
- ^ Canadian Children's Literature. Canadian Children's Press. 1983. p. 79.
- ^ a b Emergency Librarian. Vol. 8–9. Rockland Press. 1980. p. 35.
- ^ "TOBO HATES PURPLE". CM Magazine, Volume 12, No. 1. Jean E. Mabee, Winnipeg, MB.
- ^ "Tobo Hates Purple.(Book Review)". Quill and Quire, 1983 Sept, p.74 Key Publishers Company Ltd. (ISSN 0033-6491)
- ^ "Great Escapes". Books in Canada, December 1983, pag e14 May Ainslie Smith.
- ^ "Bloor and Christie: The Mystery of the Bright Red Ribbon." CM Magazine, Volume V Number 9 . January 1, 1999. Review by Joan Payzant.
- ^ "Great Food for Happy Kids". review by Thelma Barer-Stein in The Culinary Historians of Ontario, Spring 2002, Issue 32, page 6.
External links[edit]
- WorldCat report
- "Gina Calleja". Family placed obituary in the Toronto Star, March 10, 2017.
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1928 births
- 2017 deaths
- Canadian children's book illustrators
- People from Lowestoft
- English emigrants to Canada
- Canadian expatriates in England
- Alumni of the University of Reading
- Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
- Canadian women illustrators
- Canadian children's writers
- Canadian women children's writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century Canadian writers
- 20th-century Canadian artists
- 20th-century Canadian women artists