page_title: Charles Keeping
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Keeping / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue plaque erected by London Borough of Bromley at 16 Church Road, Shortlands BR2 0HP
context_page_description: Charles William James Keeping was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He first came to prominence with his illustrations of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books. He also illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens for the Folio Society.
  Keeping won two Kate Greenaway Medals from the Library Association for the year's best children's book illustration, for his own story Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary and for a new edition of Alfred Noyes's poem "The Highwayman". For the 50th anniversary of the Medal, a panel named his edition of The Highwayman one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite. He also illustrated The God Beneath the Sea, by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, which won the 1970 Carnegie Medal for children's literature. For his contribution as a children's illustrator Keeping was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974.
context_section_description: Charles Keeping died of a brain tumour on 16 May 1988. His widow, Renate, ran the Keeping Gallery, displaying his and her own work for many years.  She died in 2014.
caption: Blue plaque at 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley BR2 0HP
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