Warwick Hutton

Who was Warwick Hutton?

Warwick Hutton was an English painter, glass engraver, illustrator, and children's author.

He is most widely known for elegant pen and ink and watercolor illustrations for children’s books. His subjects were Biblical, folk, and mythological stories which Hutton retold, such as Noah and the Great Flood, The Nose Tree, and Theseus and the Minotaur. He also worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen and with retellings of traditional stories by author Susan Cooper.

The Nose Tree and Jonah and the Big Fish were chosen for the New York Times’s annual list of best-illustrated children's books. Jonah and the Great Fish was also the recipient of the 1984 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book.

Hutton died of cancer on September 28, 1994, in Cambridge, England. His father was the artist and glass engraver John Hutton