# Michelle Cartlidge

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{{Short description|English writer and illustrator}}
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| birth_place = [Hampstead](/source/Hampstead), London, England
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| occupation = Writer and [Illustrator](/source/Illustrator)
| education = [Hornsey College of Art](/source/Hornsey_College_of_Art), [Royal College of Art](/source/Royal_College_of_Art)
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| genre = [Children's literature](/source/Children's_literature)
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| notableworks = Pippin and Pod, [Teddy Trucks](/source/Teddy_Trucks)
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'''Michelle Cartlidge''' is an English writer and illustrator.

==Early life and studies==
Cartlidge was born in [Hampstead](/source/Hampstead), [London](/source/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](/source/Katrin_Cartlidge) was an English actress who died in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=IMDB Katrin Cartlidge Bio|website=[IMDb](/source/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](/source/Hornsey_College_of_Art) and the [Royal College of Art](/source/Royal_College_of_Art). After leaving the [Royal College of Art](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Teddy_Trucks)<ref>{{cite web|title=IMDB - Teddy Trucks (TV series 1994)|website=[IMDb](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Cornwall), in the fishing village of [Mousehole](/source/Mousehole).{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

She is a patron of the [Katrin Cartlidge Foundation](/source/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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Category:Living people
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:Artists from the London Borough of Camden
Category:People from Hampstead
Category:20th-century English illustrators
Category:21st-century English illustrators
Category:English children's writers
Category:English children's book illustrators
Category:English women children's writers
Category:English women children's book illustrators
Category:English people of German-Jewish descent
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Writers from the London Borough of Camden
Category:Writers who illustrated their own writing
Category:20th-century English poets
Category:21st-century British poets
Category:British children's poets
Category:20th-century English women poets
Category:21st-century women poets

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