P. J. Lynch has worked as a Children’s Book Illustrator since leaving Brighton
College of Art in England in 1984.
He has won many awards including the Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Medal
three times, and the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal on two occasions , first
for "The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" by Susan Wojciechowski, and
again for “When Jessie Came Across the Sea” by Amy Hest.
"The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey” has sold more than a million copies
in the United States alone, and has recently been made into a motion picture
starring Tom Berenger and Joely Richardson.
In recent years PJ has been commissioned to design posters for Opera Ireland
and
the Abbey Theatre.
He has also designed several sets of stamps for An Post (the Irish Postal
service), including last year’s Christmas issue.
In 2006 PJ completed work on two large scale murals in oils on the theme of
“Gulliver’s Travels” for the new Cavan County Library.
P. J. Lynch lives in Dublin with his wife and their three young children.
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