{{Short description|English writer and illustrator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Michelle Cartlidge | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Hampstead, London, England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer and Illustrator | education = Hornsey College of Art, Royal College of Art | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Children's literature | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Pippin and Pod, Teddy Trucks | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Mother Goose Award | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://www.michellecartlidge.com}} | portaldisp = }} '''Michelle Cartlidge''' is an English writer and illustrator.
==Early life and studies== Cartlidge was born in Hampstead, London to a British father and a German Jewish refugee mother.<ref>{{cite web|title=Barbara Cartlidge|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80020131}}</ref> Her sister Katrin Cartlidge was an English actress who died in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=IMDB Katrin Cartlidge Bio|website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001020/bio}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Guardian Letters: Katrin Cartlidge|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/sep/13/guardianobituaries.filmnews | location=London | work=The Guardian|first1=Faynia|last1=Williams|first2=Andy|last2=Holyer|date=13 September 2002}}</ref>
She trained in ceramics at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art. After leaving the Royal College of Art, Michelle decided to concentrate on drawing and started developing ideas for children's books.
==Career== She won the Mother Goose Award for the most exciting newcomer to British Children's Books in 1979, for her first book ''Pippin and Pod''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cartlidge|first=Michelle|title=Pippin and Pod|year=1978|publisher=Pantheon Books|location=New York|isbn=0394838459|edition=1st American}}</ref> Since then she has had over a hundred books published worldwide in over ten languages,<ref>{{cite web|title=WorldCat Identities - Cartlidge, Michelle|url=http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n77-15972}}</ref> and her Teddy Trucks<ref>{{cite web|title=IMDB - Teddy Trucks (TV series 1994)|website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623138/}}</ref> books have been made into a popular animated cartoon series for Children's BBC.<ref>{{cite web|title=BFI - Film & TV Database - TEDDY TRUCKS|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/23147|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224051711/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/23147|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-12-24}}</ref> Her work is also included on the Signed Stories web site where books are performed in sign language for hearing-impaired children.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.signedstories.com/world/browseall/index.cfm#/player/Brave_Mouse|title= Signed Stories|access-date= 9 August 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100218144537/http://www.signedstories.com/world/browseall/index.cfm#/player/Brave_Mouse|archive-date= 18 February 2010|url-status= dead}}</ref> Best sellers include ''Mouse Ballet''<ref>{{cite book|last=Cartlidge|first=Michelle|title=Mouse ballet|year=2006|publisher=Campbell Books|location=London|isbn=1405089032}}</ref> and ''The Cornish Cats Who Went To Sea''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cartlidge|first=Michelle|title=The Cornish cats who went to sea|year=2004|publisher=Happy Cat|location=Bradfield|isbn=1903285925}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=We Love Stories|url=http://www.signedstories.com/welovestories.cfm?articleId=36}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Apart from the books that Michelle writes and illustrates herself, she has illustrated two collections of poetry for young children with Brian Patten.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cartlidge|first=text by Brian Patten; illustrated by Michelle|title=Mouse poems|year=1998|publisher=Scholastic|location=London|isbn=0590199668}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Cartlidge|first=text by Brian Patten, illustrations by Michelle|title=A year of mouse poems|year=2000|publisher=Scholastic|location=London|isbn=0590114093}}</ref> She has also designed a twenty-nine-piece bone china gift range for Wedgwood,<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret - Wedgwood Specialist|url=http://www.marg.co.uk/cat/group.asp?grp=1113&NewOld=Old|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420170947/http://www.marg.co.uk/cat/group.asp?grp=1113&NewOld=Old|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-20}}</ref> and greetings cards, tins and wrapping paper.
==Personal life==
Cartlidge lives in Cornwall, in the fishing village of Mousehole.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
She is a patron of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Katrin Cartlidge Foundation|url=http://www.katrincartlidgefoundation.org.uk/|access-date=24 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214060819/http://www.katrincartlidgefoundation.org.uk/|archive-date=14 December 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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