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Jan Pieńkowski

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Jan Michał Pieńkowski (born 8 August 1936) is a Polish-British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books. [1]

18 relations: August 8, Barnes, London, Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Haunted house (disambiguation), Helen Nicoll (author), Joan Aiken, Kate Greenaway Medal, List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10), Lucton School, Meg and Mog, Poles in the United Kingdom, Pop-up book, Private Passions, Puffin Books, Sally Blakemore, Silhouette, The North London Literary Festival, Waldo Hunt.

August 8

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School is a Roman Catholic school in Holland Park, London, with approximately 950 students.

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Haunted house (disambiguation)

A haunted house is a building purported to be the site of paranormal activity.

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Helen Nicoll (author)

Helen Nicoll (10 October 1937 – 30 September 2012) was an English author of children's books. She is best known for the Meg and Mog series. In total, she wrote 17 books. She worked with Jan Pienkowski (illustrator) for over forty years on her books. In 1983, she founded an audiobook company called Cover to Cover. It was bought by BBC Worldwide in 2000.

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Joan Aiken

Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels.

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Kate Greenaway Medal

The Kate Greenaway Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children".

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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Lucton School

Lucton School, is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school in Lucton near Leominster, Herefordshire, England.

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Meg and Mog

Meg and Mog is a series of children’s books written by Helen Nicoll and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.

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Poles in the United Kingdom

The Polish community in the United Kingdom since the mid-20th century largely stems from the Polish presence in the British Isles during the Second World War, when Poles made a substantial contribution to the Allied war effort.

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Pop-up book

The term pop-up book is often applied to any three-dimensional or movable book, although properly the umbrella term movable book covers pop-ups, transformations, tunnel books, volvelles, flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, pull-downs, and more, each of which performs in a different manner.

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Private Passions

Private Passions is a weekly music discussion programme which has been running since 15 April 1995 on BBC Radio 3, presented by the composer Michael Berkeley.

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Puffin Books

Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books.

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Sally Blakemore

Sally Blakemore is an award-winning paper engineer and pop-up book packager based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

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The North London Literary Festival

The North London Literary Festival is an annual event held at Middlesex University and the surrounding areas of North London.

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Waldo Hunt

Waldo Henley Hunt (November 28, 1920 – November 6, 2009) was a prolific producer of pop-up books, having nearly singlehandedly revived the genre in the post-war era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pieńkowski

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