Tohby Riddle

Tohby Riddle is an Australian creator of picture books and illustrated books that have been published in many countries, and translated into many languages, around the world. His picture books include The Great Escape from City Zoo, The Royal Guest, Nobody Owns the Moon, My Uncle's Donkey and Unforgotten. Other books include The Greatest Gatsby: a visual book of grammar, the Word Spy books written by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrated by Tohby Riddle, the novel The Lucky Ones, and two cartoon collections, What's the Big Idea? and Pink Freud. The cartoon collections comprise cartoons published in Good Weekend magazine (Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's Age) over a period of nearly ten years from 1997.

In 2005 he became editor of The School Magazine, in which his illustrations, non-fiction pieces and poems have also appeared regularly.[1] In 2009 he won the Patricia Wrightson Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards with Ursula Dubosarsky for their book The Word Spy.[2]

In 2018, Tohby Riddle's book My Uncle's Donkey was translated for a Japanese edition by Haruki Murakami after Mr Murakami found the book in a Melbourne bookshop on a visit to Australia. That edition was published in December 2018 by Asunaro Shobo.

In December 2020 he was nominated as Australia's illustrator candidate for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award.[3]