Yvonne Gilbert's cover design of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 1983 single "Relax" has been described as "one of the most famous record sleeves of all time".
14 Facts About Yvonne Gilbert
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Yvonne Gilbert illustrated several of the books in the Ologies series, among other children's books.
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Yvonne Gilbert was born in Wallsend and lived in her grandparents' house with her parents.
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Yvonne Gilbert lived for a time with Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford.
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Yvonne Gilbert has created special sets of Christmas stamps for the Royal Mail.
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Yvonne Gilbert has provided artwork for many other children's books, including A Visit from St Nicholas, and Vivien French's A Christmas Star Called Hannah, both published in 2000.
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Yvonne Gilbert illustrated Billy Joel's first children's book, "Goodbye My Angel", in 2004, which he based on a song he wrote for his daughter.
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Yvonne Gilbert's initial colour-pencilled drawings for Wizardology, featuring "Merlin in his book-filled study, and a young magician in training," were lost by the Royal Mail in 2005 when she tried to mail them to publisher Templar.
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Yvonne Gilbert has provided the illustrations for the Brothers Grimm work The Frog Prince, retold by Kathy-Jo Wargin in 2007.
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Yvonne Gilbert has provided the cover art for many of Jennifer Roberson's novels, including Lady of the Forest and its sequel Lady of Sherwood, Lady of the Glen, Highwaymen: Robbers and Rogues, and the 2001 republications of her Chronicles of the Cheysuli fantasy series: Shapechanger's Song, Legacy of the Wolf, Children of the Lion, and The Lion Throne.
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Yvonne Gilbert designed the art in The Wild Swans in 2005, featured in a republication of Hans Christian Andersen's story.
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Yvonne Gilbert produced the "traditional fairy tale type" illustrations for Jodi Picoult's first young adult novel Between the Lines, published in 2012.
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In 2006, Yvonne Gilbert sold her house near Castle Leazes in Newcastle upon Tyne to move to Toronto with her son and second husband.
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Yvonne Gilbert has taught dress design at the Birmingham College of Art, and rescues bull terriers in her free time.