RIP: Richard Horne Черт, как же последний абзац все переворачивает.
Richard Horne Last Updated: 1:57am GMT 24/01/2007Richard Horne, who has died aged 46, was a former political cartoonist who turned to writing and illustrating bestselling books for children under the pen-name Harry Horse.
His best-known series was a quartet, The Last Polar Bears, The Last Gold Diggers, The Last Cowboys and The Last Castaways, all inspired, he said, by his family and his dog Roo, the feisty canine heroine of all four.
They chronicle Roo's travels with Grandpa, told through the old man's letters to "his child", assumed to be either his son or daughter or a grandchild.
Horne's patchwork career encompassed stints as a legal trainee, unregistered student and rock musician as well as cartoonist, illustrator and author.
His children's books enjoyed great commercial and critical success: The Last Gold Diggers won a Smarties Book Prize gold medal in 1998, and The Last Polar Bears was a Children's Book of the Year Choice. His Little Rabbit series of picture books were voted top picture books of 2006 by Publishers Weekly.
Horne's books were translated into a dozen languages and were much in demand in the United States.
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