Gina Calleja, born Jean Gadsby, (March 12, 1928 – March 7, 2017) was an author and illustrator of children's books in Canada.[1]
Gina Calleja | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jean Gadsby March 12, 1928 Lowestoft, England |
| Died | March 7, 2017 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | author and illustrator |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Joseph Calleja |
Personal life and education
editCalleja 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
editCalleja 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
editAs author
editAs illustrator
editReferences
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.