David Mason and Alfred Noyes died on this day, so here's a pair of covers from each (Artist: Jim Steranko, Frank Frazetta, Steele Savage and Brian Wildsmith):

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My publisher shared a NetGalley review which brought a tear to my eye.
This eight-year-old reader:
"loved the characters, the dragons and the care of them, the friendships, and it made 'her heart feel happy'..."
If I've made one heart feel happy, it's all worth it!

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A fun time was had by singers and audience last weekend in our animal-themed summer concert!
(Illustrations below by Martin and Alice Provensen, and Brian Wildsmith.)

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Last week at Broken Frontier... Celebrating Tamlin – Aven Wildsmith Reimagines Scottish Folk Song as Queer Fairy Tale in this Eerily Beautiful Graphic Narrative. https://t.co/hrN1YdDsSO

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Celebrating We look at Aven Wildsmith's beautifully illustrated queer fairy tale TAMLIN here today at BF, published by . https://t.co/hrN1YdDsSO

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We are enjoying singing Chilcott's Aesop's Fables.
And just look at this illustration of the hare from The Hare and the Tortoise, by the amazing Brian Wildsmith.

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We hope everyone has a lovely Easter weekend! are enjoying 'Supertato The Great Eggscape' 'Easter' 'Heaven's Big Secret' 'The Easter Story' Brian Wildsmith 🐣

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Today's selection of our favourite art from Brian Wildsmith's Illustrated Bible Stories: The dove returns to the ark with an olive branch. Joseph is presented to Potiphar. Joseph is reunited with his father. The Pharaoh's daughter finds a baby, later named Moses, in the Nile.

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A is for apple. Seeking comfort today with two childhood favourites by Brian Wildsmith and Helen Oxenbury. Click on the link below to find out more:

https://t.co/rIjJYqPBGV

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👈Art by , Brian Wildsmith👉

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👈Brian Wildsmith, art by 👉

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Happy birthday four of my favs by Brian Wildsmith, Angela Barrett, Shaun Tan and you

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Floo powder was invented by Ignatia Wildsmith in the thirteenth century.

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Weekend inspiration: an excellent website on the life and work of the incredible https://t.co/tdQWQKW0P7

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Brian Wildsmith's illustrations for Tales From the Arabian Nights

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Dulac, Ambrus, Ardizzone, Keeping, R.Kennedy, Ahlbergs, Foreman, Jacques, Wildsmith, Oxenbury, Pienkowski,Briggs, H Ford, L Speed, Scarry, Hughes, Jansson, Potter, Shepard,Fortnum (to name a few)Thanks for brightening my childhood

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Thank you dear for the alert that Today would have been Brian Wildsmith‘s 90th birthday. He was unsurpassable really - just see these swimmers swim.

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A butterfly this

from "Animal Seasons", first published in 1980

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All hail Brian Wildsmith who would have been 90 today and brought so much colour to children's books! His family have set up a wonderful new website: https://t.co/yhDRksINnh
Here is one of my favourite images, from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

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For what would have been the great illustrator 's 90th birthday, it's to which I say:
S is for Squirrels

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