of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to children's literature and Holocaust education. Death and legacy Kerr died at her home on 22 May 2019, aged 95, following a short illness. In 2013 Britain's first bilingual state school in English and German, the in Herne Hill, south London, was named after her. In May 2019, a week before her death, she was nominated as an illustrator of the year at the British Book Awards. An archive of her illustrations is held at the Seven Stories centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. Selected works The Tiger Who Came to Tea (HarperCollins, 1968). The Mog series, including: Mog the Forgetful Cat (1970) Goodbye, Mog (2002) Mog's Christmas Calamity (2015) The "Out of the Hitler Time" trilogy: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (1971) Bombs on Aunt Dainty (originally published as The Other Way Round) (1975) A Small Person Far Away (1978) References External links 'I was enchanted by the strangeness of cats' (2011 video), The Guardian English and German Episode of BBC Radio 4's series Word of Mouth in which Michael Rosen interviews Judith Kerr (from 05:00 to 16:35) 1923 births 2019 deaths 20th-century British writers 21st-century British writers Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design British illustrators British women children's writers English Jewish writers English children's writers English people of German-Jewish descent English women writers German children's writers German women children's writers German emigrants to England German people of Jewish descent Jewish women writers Jewish artists Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism Judith Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Barnes, London Writers from Berlin Writers from London 20th-century English women 20th-century English people 21st-century English women 21st-century English people