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Idly thinking about #WorldBookDay costumes. You know how some people with large families talk about having enough children to make a football team? My dream would have been enough children to recreate the Badfort Band, with me as Beaver Hateman. (from 'Uncle' by JP Martin).
@womanandsphere I loved this one - and some of the other nature-based books in the series. As a town-dwelling child who longed to live in the country, I used to lose myself in the illustrations...
I've been reading the obituary of Jeffrey Camp, who recently died (aged 96). He was inspired by coastal landscapes, and this is his wonderful, vertiginous 'Beachy Head, Spectacular Drop'.
Started watching this last night. Delighted to say that it's so bad that I'm going to see it in instalments, like a bedtime sweet. It's a portmanteau story, in which the actors in the different segments don't seem to be in the same film, or country, or planet, or known universe.
'Their Finest Hour and a Half' is going to be re-issued by
@TransworldBooks later in the year, with a brand-new cover by Chris Wormell, and I think it's JUST PERFECT.
A quartet of Quentin Blake illustrations of the appallingly-behaved Badfort crowd from JP Martin's Uncle books. I found these pictures fabulously funny and anarchic when I was seven, and I still do.
#BookIllustrationOfTheDayBirthday2 @mrjamesmayhew