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#AnArdizzoneADay Day 305 - from Titus in Trouble by James Reeves and Edward Ardizzone
My farewell to 2020 #AnArdizzoneADay Day 287 comes from Mimff in Charge by H J Kaeser (1949).
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 286 is of Tim and the ship's cat clinging for dear life to a raft, all alone on a stormy sea. From the front cover of Tim All Alone (1956).
Yesterday's #AnArdizzoneADay Day 279 and #ArdizzoneAdvent 23 - from the Ardizzone edition of Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales
An idyllic family Christmas scene for today's #AnArdizzoneADay Here's Day 277 and #ArdizzoneAdvent 21 - another from Ardizzone's illustrations for Dylan Thomas's 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'.
Still catching up on #AnArdizzoneADay Here's Day 274 and #ArdizzoneAdvent 18 - another from Ardizzone's illustrations for Dylan Thomas's 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'. The traditional post-Christmas dinner look.
Catching up on #AnArdizzoneADay Day 271 and #ArdizzoneAdvent 15 is another from Ardizzone's illustrations for Dylan Thomas's 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'.
Catching up #AnArdizzoneADay Day 269 and #ArdizzoneAdvent 13 is from Ardizzone's illustrations for Dylan Thomas's 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'.
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 266 and #ArdizzoneAdvent 10 - from Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. Tim, exhausted climbs into his bunk bed for a well-deserved rest.
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 239 - an idyllic rural scene illustrating an article on 'The Country Pub' in the Winter 1960-61 Land journal, farm journal of the Shell Chemical Company
And just because I've been brushing up my Christmas carols on the piano today and it's never too early to be thinking about Christmas this is from EA's illustrated edition of A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas #AnArdizzoneADay Day 210 (cigarette is a sweetie I believe!)
Yesterday's Diz got forgotten - Here's #AnArdizzoneADay Day 209, from Ali Baba for the Limited Editions Club. Richness, texture, movement, colour. Wonderful.
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 206 - from Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel.
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 204 After Hours from The Local by Maurice Gorham with illustrations by EA.
Yesterday's #AnArdizzoneADay Day 202 is another from The Night Ride by Aingelda Ardizzone - the toys set off on their adventure to find a new home and a child to love them.
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 184 is from the Limited Editions Club edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 177 is another one from Leonard Clark's The Year Round. This one is on the title page. I love the cat and the blackbird and the contented sharing.
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 165 Ardizzone had a special touch when it came to illustrating little dogs. This little fella is in Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel.
Yesterday's #AnArdizzoneADay got lost in the ether. Here's Day 163 - from Sarah and Simon and No Red Paint - #edwardardizzone #ardizzone #illustration #childrensbooks #bookillustration #rarebooks #bookshop
#AnArdizzoneADay Day 160. Here's an appealing scene for a rainy August afternoon - the opening to Tim in Danger. 'It was a lovely day when Tim, Charlotte and Ginger were playing on the beach. The sky was blue, and the white yachts were sailing in the bay.'