# childrensbooks bibliophile edwardardizzone

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.

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First Barbara Jones was from adult me. Second illustration for is by Kathleen Hale, whose books I loved as a child and are probably what made me receptive to Ravilious and Bawden in later life.

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Lizbeth Zwerger is my third my great illustration hero.
Her exceptional drawing skill combined with a light touch in her use of watercolour to produce magical art like this from "The Swineherd” by HC Andersen.

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A few pics to mark all rich in the sort of detail that fired my young imagination, from: Ant and Bee Go Shopping (Angela Banner); The Saga of Noggin the Nog (Peter Firmin); The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (W Heath Robinson).

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And finally the FIRST book I ever remember from childhood. The immortal ‘Winnie The Pooh’ by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepherd. And please indulge me with my favourite illustration from my own, unpublished as yet, book ‘Peedie Pointy Dog’ 😉😁#BookIllustrationOfTheDayBirthday2

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Going old school now. From my mother's ancient edition of Undine, illus Arthus Rackham.

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Then the books that made me cry.. there’s a breathtaking moment in Shaun Tan’s ‘Eric’ that was one of the most beautiful pages I’ve ever seen..

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Another fave illustrator of mine is Janet Ahlberg.
This pic from Each Peach Pear Plum

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. ‘s daily posts of Book Illustrations are one of the highlights of Twitter. To celebrate its anniversary, here are three blasts from the past from my collection by Michael Foreman, Tomi Ungerer, Quentin Blake and David McKee.

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My sons' favourite character when they were small. Mick Inkpen's Wibbly Pig!

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Sandra Speidel, gorgeous chalk pastels from Fixing The Crack of Dawn

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It's and to start here are some pages from Planes, Trains, Cars and Boats by Lionel and Muriel Kalish, 1963

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I had this poster on my wall in my teenage bedroom and a succession of rented rooms until it finally faded away and the edges flaked. I now have it in a book, and in my dreams.

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Who doesn't secretly want to go rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta, all down the road, astride an elephant? Remembering to say please, of course

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I absolutely love 's watercolour illustrations. These bears are from her book 'Bear Child'

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Really tricky to pick just one, so we're going with a few childhood faves for



1. Arthur Rackham.
2. Jiří Trnka.
3. Kay Nelson.
4. Edmund Dulac.

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Maurice Sendak's Little Bear and his friends want to join the celebration. Thank you very much for sharing so much art!

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One more before bed. Meet ‘Old Perisher’, the naughty cat of Corporation Gardens. Written by Diana Ross and published by Faber in 1965.
Illustrations of course by

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