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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Two vivid 70s silkscreen prints of a walled city by artist/book illustrator Brian Wildsmith. From the sumptuous new website launched today

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