Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym "BB".
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11 Facts About Denys Watkins-Pitchford
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford was born in Lamport, Northamptonshire, the second son of the Revd.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford spent a great deal of time on his own, wandering through the fields, and developed a love of the outdoors, which was to influence his writing.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford enjoyed shooting, fishing and drawing; all these things were to influence his writing greatly.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford won several prizes while there, but was irked by the dry, academic approach, and longed to be able to draw from life.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford was later to say that he could not remember how long he had spent in Paris, but Quinn suggests that it was probably about three months.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford worked at a studio in Montparnasse, and attended drawing classes.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford later illustrated books by other writers, and sold his own paintings locally.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford married in 1939, and had two children, Robin, who died at the age of seven from Bright's Disease, and Angela.
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Denys Watkins-Pitchford was awarded an honorary MA by Leicester University in 1986, and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1990.
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