Judith Kerr

Nicolette Jones and Judith Kerr shared platforms more than 30 times and therefore it seems fitting to have those occasions represented on this website. Judith Kerr’s stories, shaped by her extraordinary life and gentle wit, have left an enduring mark on generations of readers, blending warmth, resilience, and imagination. Pictured with the late John Burningham.

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Interviewing Judith Kerr. A snippet of the piece.

I hope that, over those past 20 events, there have been young people in the audiences who will one day, after a lifetime of having understood an important truth about the past, tell their grandchildren that they saw a delightful woman speak about her narrow escape from Nazi Germany. And they will pass on that understanding, and the empathy engendered by having heard Judith Kerr speak. That feels a huge thing to have had any part in.

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The illustrator and writer Judith Kerr would have been 100 this year. To mark her centenary, Oliver Jeffers and Nicolette Jones discuss her indisputable contribution to the world of children's books, her subtle ability to weave the playful with the profound, and legacy amongst writers today exploring issues such as displacement and living as a refugee.

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“We have talked about Mog and the Tiger for fidgety audiences of small children, whom Judith's readings instantly stilled to thumb-sucking silence. We have marked Holocaust Memorial Day at the House of Illustration, with a sequence of astonishing works of art on the screen by too-little-known artists who were murdered. We have complemented the exhibition of her own life and work housed at the Jewish Museum at Camden. We have tried to cram 92 years into 15 minutes, for the Guardian's 5 x 15. We have shared adventures from the Bush Theatre to Budleigh Salterton, from Foyles to Lady Margaret Hall.”

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