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Jan Pieńkowski, the Glossary

Jan Michał Pieńkowski (8 August 1936 – 19 February 2022) was a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books.^[1]

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Austrian Literature Online

Austrian Literature Online (ALO) is an Austrian digitization project by the University Library of Innsbruck, the University Library of Graz and the University of Linz.

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in south London, England, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks.

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The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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British subject

The term "British subject" has several different meanings depending on the time period.

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Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School is a Roman Catholic secondary day school in Holland Park with approximately 950 students.

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Central Connecticut State University

Central Connecticut State University (Central Connecticut, CCSU, Central Connecticut State, or informally Central) is a public university in New Britain, Connecticut.

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Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the United Kingdom.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season.

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Civil union

A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples.

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Complicité

Complicité is a British theatre company founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, Marcello Magni and Fiona Gordon.

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Dementia

Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's ability to perform everyday activities.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris is an entertainment resort in Marne-la-Vallée, France.

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Eleven-plus

The eleven-plus (11+) is a standardised examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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Greeting card

A greeting card is a piece of card stock, usually with an illustration or photo, made of high quality paper featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment.

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Gyldendal

Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S, usually referred to simply as Gyldendal, is a Danish publishing house.

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Hans Christian Andersen Award

The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature".

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Heinemann (publisher)

William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann.

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Helen Nicoll

Helen Nicoll (10 October 1937 – 30 September 2012) was an English author of children's books. She is best known for the Meg and Mog series. In total, she wrote 17 books. She worked with Jan Pienkowski (illustrator) for more than forty years on her books. In 1983, she founded an audiobook company called Cover to Cover.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

W Żłobie Leży ("In the Manger He Lies") is a traditional Polish Christmas carol.

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International Board on Books for Young People

The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is an international non-profit organization committed to bringing books and children together.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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J. M. Dent

Joseph Malaby Dent (30 August 1849 – 9 May 1926) was a British book publisher who produced the Everyman's Library series.

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Joan Aiken

Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), who was head of the firm until his death.

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Kate Greenaway Medal

The Carnegie Medal for Illustration (until 2022, the Kate Greenaway Medal) is a British award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children".

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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King's Road

King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents) is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pieńkowski

Also known as Jan Pienkowski.

, The Times, University of Cambridge, Warsaw, World War II, WorldCat.

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British gay artists

Deaths from dementia in the United Kingdom

Kate Greenaway Medal winners

LGBT Christians

People educated at Lucton School

Polish gay artists

Polish gay writers

Pop-up book artists

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