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{{Short description|Australian illustrator of picture books}}
{{about||the Australian swimmer|Greg Rogers}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

{{Infobox writer
| name             = Gregory Rogers
| birth_name       = Gregory John Rogers
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|df=y|1957|06|19}}
| birth_place      = [[Brisbane, Queensland]]
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=y|2013|05|01|1957|06|19}}
| alma_mater       = [[Queensland College of Art]]
| notable_works    = {{Unbulleted list|''Way Home''|''The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, and the Bard''}}
| occupation       = [[Illustrator]] and [[Writer]] of Children's Books
| nationality      = [[Australians|Australian]]
| language         = English
| awards           = [[Kate Greenaway Medal]]
}}

'''Gregory John Rogers''' (19 June 1957 – 1 May 2013)<ref name="unwin" /><ref name="PW" /> was an illustrator and writer of [[children's books]], especially [[picture books]]. He was the first [[Australians|Australian]] to win the annual [[Kate Greenaway Medal]] from the [[CILIP|Library Association]], recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a [[British subject]]. The book was ''Way Home'' by the Australian writer [[Libby Hathorn]], published in the U.K. by [[Andersen Press]] in 1994. In the unnamed city, a boy makes his way home at night and adopts a stray cat en route.<ref name="medal1994" /> The "picture book for older readers" was controversial on grounds both that it was "hardboiled" and that it "romanticised the plight of the homeless".<ref>[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A18602 "Libby Hathorn"]. AUSTLIT (austlit.edu.au). Retrieved 2015-03-16.</ref>

==Life and career==

Rogers was born on 19 June 1957, in [[Brisbane]] to Marie Bohlscheid and Rex Rogers and grew up in [[Coorparoo, Queensland|Coorparoo]].<ref name=gjr1>{{cite web|title=Fryer Folios, July 2013 |url=http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:313596/ff8_1_2013.pdf |publisher=University of Queensland (uq.edu.au) |accessdate=2014-12-03}}</ref> He studied at the [[Queensland College of Art]]<ref name=medal1994/> (fine art) and worked as a [[graphic design]]er before taking up freelance illustration in 1987.<ref name=unwin/>

Rogers has illustrated many books including Margaret Card's ''Aunty Mary's Dead Goat'', Ian Trevaskis's ''The Postman Race'', [[Gary Crew]]'s ''Tracks'' and ''Lucy's Bay'', Libby Hathorn's ''Way Home'', and Nigel Gray's ''Running Away From Home''. Beside the Greenaway Medal, ''Way Home'' also won a [[Parents' Choice Award]] in the U.S. and was shortlisted for the APBA book design awards.{{clarify|date=July 2012}}

Nevertheless, his most widely held work in [[WorldCat]] participating libraries is the first book he both wrote and illustrated, ''The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, and the Bard''. The [[picture book]] was published by [[Allen & Unwin]] of Australia in 2004 and by [[Roaring Brook Press]] that same year in the U.S.<ref name=theboy>
[http://www.worldcat.org/title/boy-the-bear-the-baron-the-bard/oclc/55797435/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&se=yr&referer=di&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= "Formats and Editions of The boy, the bear, the baron, the bard"]. WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-30.</ref>
It features a timeslip to Shakespeare's London by a boy who follows a soccer ball from [[Shakespeare's Globe]], the modern reconstruction, to the original [[Globe Theatre]].<!-- worldcat External link -->
With ''Midsummer Knight'' (2006) and ''The Hero of Little Street'' (2009) it constitutes a "wordless picture book series"<ref name=unwin/> that ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' calls his work best known in the U.S.<ref name=PW/>

Rogers played several musical instruments—the [[Cornetto (musical instrument)|cornetto]], [[recorder (musical instrument)|recorder]], and the [[baroque guitar]]—performing music of the 16th and 17th centuries. He collected "CDs, antiques, books, and anything that might attract dust".<ref name=medal1994/><ref name=unwin/> He was also an avid collector of [[Art Deco]] items.<ref name=gjr1 />

Rogers died 1 May 2013 in Brisbane from [[stomach cancer]].<ref name=PW/>

==Books==

===Solo works===
According to ''Publishers Weekly'', Rogers was "best known in [the U.S.] for his sequence of three wordless picture books".<ref name=PW/>
* ''The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard'' ([[Crows Nest, New South Wales]]: [[Allen & Unwin]], 2004)<ref name=theboy/>
* ''Midsummer Knight'' (2006)
* ''The Hero of Little Street'' (2009)
* ''Omar the Strongman'', text and illustrations (Scholastic Press, 2013), {{OCLC|849998521}} <!-- 2015-03-16, yet unknown to LCCatalogue -->

===As illustrator===
{{colbegin}}
* ''Enter Bob Dickinson'' (1988) by Kay Arthur
* ''Grandma's Memories'' (1989) by Virginia King
* ''Zoe At The Fancy Dress Ball'' (1990) by Susan Reid
* ''Lucy Meets A Dragon'' (1990) by Susan Reid
* ''Aunty Mary's Dead Goat'' (1990) by Margaret Card
* ''The Postman's Race'' (1991) by Ian Trevaskis
* ''Space Travellers'' (1992) by [[Margaret Wild]]
* ''Tracks'' (1992) by [[Gary Crew]]
* ''Lucy's Bay'' (1992) by Gary Crew
* ''Great Grandpa'' (1994) by Susan McQuade
* ''Way Home'' (Andersen, 1994) by [[Libby Hathorn]]
* ''The Bent-Back Bridge'' (1995) by Gary Crew
* ''Running Away From Home'' (1996) by Nigel Gray
* ''The Island'' (1996) by Michael O'Hara
* ''What Goes With Toes?'' (1996) by Jeri Kroll
* ''Beyond The Dusk'' (2000) by [[Victor Kelleher]]
* ''The Platypus'' (2000) by Jo Brice
* ''The Gift'' (2000) by Libby Hathorn
* ''Princess Max'' (2001) by Laurie Stiller
* ''The Rainbow'' (2001) by Gary Crew
* ''Theseus and the Minotaur'' (2002) by Janeen Brian
* ''Tiddalick the Thirsty Frog'' (2003) by Mark Carthew
* ''The Brothers Grim'' (2004) by Janeen Brian
* ''It's True! Fashion Can Be Fatal'' (2004) by Susan Green
* ''Flitterwig'' (2009) by Edrei Cullen
* ''Clearheart'' (2009) by Edrei Cullen
* ''Scatterbungle'' (2011) by Edrei Cullen
{{colend}}

==See also==
{{Portal bar |Children's literature |Visual arts |Australia }} <!-- delete the word "bar" if there are about two ordinary See also -->

==References== <!-- NLA cites obit The Age (Melbourne) 2013-06-10 -->
{{Reflist |25em |refs=
<ref name=unwin>
{{cite web |url=http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=312&author=230 |title=Gregory Rogers |work=Allen & Unwin – Children Author Display |publisher=Allenandunwin.com |accessdate=2013-05-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423080114/http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=312&author=230 |archivedate=2012-04-23 }}</ref>
<ref name=PW>
[http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/obituaries/article/57057-gregory-rogers-1957-2013.html "Gregory Rogers, 1957–2013"]. ''Publishers Weekly''. May 2, 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-16.</ref>

<ref name=medal1994>[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=12 (Greenaway Winner 1994)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231049/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=12 |date=3 March 2016 }}. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. [[CILIP]]. Retrieved 2012-07-22.</ref>
}}

==External links==
* {{isfdb name |91445 |Gregory Rogers}}
* {{worldcat |oclc=60836950 |The boy, the bear, the baron, and the bard}} —immediately, first edition with library catalogue summary
* [http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A50205 Gregory Rogers] at AUSTLIT
* {{LCAuth|n92094910|Gregory Rogers|22|ue}}

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[[Category:Artists from Brisbane]]