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has to be by today - because its the great lady's birthday! Here's "Alfie & the Birthday Surprise" (1997).
Please share *your* favourite Shirley Hughes illustrations! Let's fill twitter & celebrate!

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2020-07-16

Some more vintage Books Posters... some Spanish examples......this 1951 example from Ricard Jose Caballero...for Dia Del Libro "The Day of the Book"..#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-15

An often overlooked Art-form...a Book's End Papers...Here...some end papers teeming with LIfe!.#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-15

An alphabet full of Illustrators...O is for...Lola Onslow, an artist who worked in the pre, and the immediate post WWII period, including illustrations for Enid Blyton...
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2020-07-15

An alphabet full of Illustrators...M is for...Hilda McGavin...an illustrator, who, amongst other works, completed illustrations for over 25 Enid Blyton books...

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2020-07-13

Illustration from A Picturesque Tale of Progress (c. 1929). The artist is Donn P. Crane (1878-1944).

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2020-07-13

An alphabet full of Illustrators...L is for...Grace Lodge...an English illustrator, who, amongst other works, completed illustrations for over 50 Enid Blyton books...

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2020-07-12

An alphabet full of Illustrators...L is for...Grace Lodge...an English illustrator, who, amongst other works, completed illustrations for over 50 Enid Blyton books...

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2020-07-12

An alphabet full of Illustrators...L is for...Grace Lodge...an English illustrator, who, amongst other works, completed illustrations for over 50 Enid Blyton books...

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2020-07-12

An alphabet full of Illustrators...L is for...Grace Lodge...an English illustrator, who, amongst other works, completed illustrations for over 50 Enid Blyton books...

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2020-07-12

An alphabet full of Illustrators...K is for...Charles Keeping, an English author, illustrator and lithographer, he secured two Kate Greenaway Medals for his illustration work. Some colourful examples here...

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2020-07-11

An alphabet full of Illustrators...I is for...Elisabeth Ivanovsky, Russian by birth, she emigrated to Belgium, and had a fruitful working relationship with Marcelle Verite for whom she illustrated books for almost 50 years...
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2020-07-09

An alphabet full of Illustrators...I is for...Elisabeth Ivanovsky, Russian by birth, she emigrated to Belgium, and had a fruitful working relationship with Marcelle Verite for whom she illustrated books for almost 50 years...
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2020-07-09

An alphabet full of Illustrators...I is for...Elisabeth Ivanovsky, Russian by birth, she emigrated to Belgium, and had a fruitful working relationship with Marcelle Verite for whom she illustrated books for almost 50 years...
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2020-07-09

An alphabet full of Illustrators...I is for...Elisabeth Ivanovsky, Russian by birth, she emigrated to Belgium, and had a fruitful working relationship with Marcelle Verite for whom she illustrated books for almost 50 years...
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2020-07-09

An alphabet full of Illustrators...H is for...Kathleen Hale, whose most famous Character was Orlando the Cat who first appeared in 1938 and graced 18 books, many of which were reprinted in the early 90s. Brilliant Colours!
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2020-07-08

The Nursery Alice (1889/90) is a shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll. Coloured illustrations by John Tenniel (GB, 1820-1914). “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

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2020-07-07

An Alphabet full of Illustrators...F is For...Ethel Farmiloe...married to a Clergyman in London some of her most celebrated work depicted some of the slum children from her husband's Parish in Soho: always with humour and sympathy#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-06