Judith Kerr is one of the most popular children's authors of all time. She is most famous for writing The Tiger Who Came to Tea. She also wrote the Mog series. Famously she also wrote When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit- which is a view of the Second World War through the eyes of a child.
Judith Kerr was born in Berlin on 14th June 1923 and she died on 22nd May 2019. She had two children- Tacy and Matthew. Matthew was also a writer- he won the Whitbread Book of the Year for the English Passengers in 2000. Kerr was Jewish and came to Britain in 1935 to escape the Nazi government in Germany.
In 2013, Britain's first bilingual school- The Judith Kerr Primary School, was named after her. It is bilingual through English and German. Judith Kerr lived in the same house in Barnes, London, from 1962 until her death in 2019.
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