Inspiring Young Readers
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Margery Gill posted on 24 Aug 2017
Anyone who loves the great Oxford University Press children’s classics or those fabulous vintage Puffin books of the 1960s and 70s ....
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Hilda Boswell posted on 03 Aug 2017
Boswell was born in Hackney in 1903 into a comfortable middle class background – her father was a well-established architect.
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Children’s Book Illustrators in India posted on 09 Jul 2017
Telling Tales: Children’s literature in India is a 1995 volume of essays edited by Amit Dasgupta and containing a short but interesting essay by Mohini Rao
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Pauline Baynes posted on 26 Jun 2017
I find it almost impossible to think about C.S. Lewis’s Nania fantasy without the drawings of Pauline Baynes...
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Garth Williams posted on 16 Jun 2017
Garth Williams may not be a name that readily springs into your mind when it comes to naming the great children’s book illustrators.
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Tomie de Paola posted on 02 Jun 2017
This prolific much loved American illustrator has now illustrated over 250 picture and chapter books ...
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Eric Winter posted on 18 May 2017
I’ve never been a big reader of Ladybird books: at the age I might have been reading them I was much more interested in comics.
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Jean de Brunhoff. posted on 05 Apr 2017
The name of Jean de Brunhof is synonymous with one fantastic creation – Babar the Elephant.
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H.A. and Margret Rey posted on 20 Mar 2017
This husband and wife team are probably best known for their cheeky monkey creation Curious George...
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Chris Van Allsburg posted on 24 Feb 2017
I have to admit that I came to Van Allsburg’s illustrations and children’s books quite late.