"Mary Shepard Mary Eleanor Jessie Knox née Shepard (25 December 1909 – 4 September 2000) was an English illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the ""Mary Poppins"" stories written by P. L. Travers (1934 to 1988): ""Mary Shepard: Putting Mary Poppins in the picture"", ""The Times"" of London titled an obituary article. She used her married name Mary Knox outside the publishing industry. She was the daughter of E. H. Shepard, a famous illustrator of children's literature including ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" by A. A. Milne in the 1920s and a 1931 edition of ""The Wind in the Willows"" by"
"Raymond Sheppard Raymond Sheppard (1913–1958) was a British artist and illustrator of books for children and adults. He wrote books on drawing techniques, but is best known for his illustrations of Ernest Hemingway's ""The Old Man and the Sea"" and the works of Jim Corbett. Sheppard was born on 3 March 1913, and was educated at Christ's College, Finchley. From childhood Sheppard had a love of nature, from his time playing in Scratchwood in Mill Hill, north-west London, to his time spent in London Zoo sketching live animals. He studied art at Bolt Court under S.G. Boxsius and from October"
"Kenneth Grahame. Shepard graduated from the Slade School of Art. She was 23 when her father was too busy to illustrate ""Mary Poppins"" and Travers discovered her work on a Christmas card. She married E. V. Knox, father of Penelope Fitzgerald. Mary Shepard Mary Eleanor Jessie Knox née Shepard (25 December 1909 – 4 September 2000) was an English illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the ""Mary Poppins"" stories written by P. L. Travers (1934 to 1988): ""Mary Shepard: Putting Mary Poppins in the picture"", ""The Times"" of London titled an obituary article. She used her married"
"1902 to immediate success. ""Peter Rabbit"" was Potter's first of many ""The Tale of...,"" including ""The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"", ""The Tale of Benjamin Bunny"", ""The Tale of Tom Kitten"", and ""The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck"", to name but a few which were published in the years leading up to 1910. Swedish author Elsa Beskow wrote and illustrated some forty children's stories and picture books between 1897–1952. Andrew Lang's twelve Fairy Books published between 1889 and 1910 were illustrated by among others Henry J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. In the US, illustrated stories for children appeared in magazines like ""Ladies"
"Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler (""a magnificent bear""), as the model. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger, were incorporated into A. A. Milne's stories, and two more characters – Rabbit and Owl – were created by Milne's imagination. Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now on display in New York where 750,000 people visit them every year. The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were"
"Mermaid"", ""Adventures of Pinocchio"", ""Caillou"", ""The Little Lulu Show"", ""Cat Tales"", ""The World of David the Gnome"", ""Spirou"", ""Anna Banana"", ""Diplodos"", ""Nutsberry Town"", ""Lucky Luke"", ""C.L.Y.D.E."", ""Jungle Tales"", ""The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures"", ""Pig City"", ""Wunschpunsch"", ""Sea Dogs"", ""A Miss Mallard Mystery"", ""Woofy"", ""Fred the Caveman"", ""Bob in a Bottle"", ""Jim Button"", ""The Tofus"", ""The Kids from Room 402"", ""Night Hood"", ""Flight Squad"", ""Ivanhoe"", ""Bumpety Boo"", ""Oscar and Spike"", ""Ocean Tales"", ""The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo"", ""Creepschool"", ""Mica"", ""Belphegor"", ""Zoe and Charlie"", ""Gino the Chicken"", ""Pet Pals"", ""The Twins"", Marsupilami, ""Wombat City"", ""Mona the Vampire"", Zoé Kezako,"
"he felt that the Pooh illustrations overshadowed his other work. Shepard modelled Pooh not on the toy owned by Milne's son Christopher Robin but on ""Growler"", a stuffed bear owned by his own son. (Growler no longer exists, having been given to his granddaughter Minnie Hunt and subsequently destroyed by a neighbour's dog.) His Pooh work is so famous that 300 of his preliminary sketches were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969, when he was 90 years old. A Shepard painting of Winnie the Pooh, believed to have been painted in the 1930s for a Bristol teashop,"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"
"Edgar & Ellen Edgar & Ellen, created by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, is based on twelve-year-old orphaned twins who cause mischief and mayhem in their sickly sweet town, Nod's Limbs. The series currently contains nine books in addition to some side material. The Twin's name's are derived from American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe. ""Rare Beasts"" is the first, followed by ""Tourist Trap"", ""Under Town"", ""Pet's Revenge"", ""High Wire"" and ""Nod's Limbs"", with a sequel series premiering just a year later, currently consisting of ""Hot Air"", ""Frost Bites"" and ""Split Ends"". The ""Mischief Manual"", a book written in"
"and began issuing the Bedtime Stories series (20 books originally published 1913–1919, including such titles as ""The Adventures of Reddy Fox"" and ""The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel"") in 1949. The original Little, Brown editions had plates of high quality paper for the illustrations, but the Grosset & Dunlap editions were to print the illustrations on the same stock as the text. They commissioned the original artist, Harrison Cady, to recreate the illustrations as line drawings appropriate for that type of paper, and to create many additional illustrations. Where the original Little, Brown editions had six full-page illustrations, the"
"encounter the horrors of the First World War. ""Five Children and It"" has been adapted for television and film several times: Five Children and It Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the ""Strand Magazine"" under the general title ""The Psammead, or the Gifts"", with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904) and ""The Story"
"firm of ""A & C Black"". The partnership lasted 27 years. His next works for the firm were ""Aesop's Fables"" (1912), ""The Arabian Nights"" (1913), and ""Ottoman Wonder Tales"" (1915), a work that evokes the style of Persian manuscripts. Folkard's ""The Adventures of Teddy Tail"" was the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip and became instantly popular when it premiered in the ""Daily Mail"" on 5 April 1915. The mouse character was named after his three-year-old son Ted. The exploits of Teddy Tail and Dr. Beetle, the Penny Princess, Golliwog, Snail, and Teddy's other friends were reproduced in a series"
"C. Kiefer, Alex Blum, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Jack Kirby, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow, Joe Orlando, Norman Nodel, Rudolph Palais, John Parker, Norman Saunders, John Severin, Joe Sinnott, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson and George Woodbridge. ""Classics Illustrated Junior"" featured Albert Lewis Kanter's comic book adaptations of fairy and folk tale, myth and legends. In 1953, ""Classics Illustrated Junior"" debuted with ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs""; the line eventually numbered 77 issues, ending publication in 1971. Issues included miscellanea such as an Aesop fable and a full-page illustration to color with crayons. Artists included John Costanza and Kurt Schaffenberger. Of the"
"Five Children and It Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the ""Strand Magazine"" under the general title ""The Psammead, or the Gifts"", with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904) and ""The Story of the Amulet"" (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication. Like Nesbit's ""The Railway Children"","
"The landscapes depicted in E. H. Shepard's illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books were directly inspired by the distinctive landscape of Ashdown Forest, with its high, open heathlands of heather, gorse, bracken and silver birch punctuated by hilltop clumps of pine trees. Many of Shepard's illustrations can be matched to actual views, allowing for a degree of artistic licence. Shepard's sketches of pine trees and other forest scenes are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The game of Poohsticks was originally played by Christopher Milne on a footbridge across a tributary of the River Medway in Posingford Wood,"
"Cooper Edens Cooper Edens is an author and illustrator of more than 25 children's books..[1] He's best known for ""If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow"" and ""Add One More Star to the Night"". These works reflect his ""horizontal"" approach to storytelling. that asks the reader to solve a non-linear string of ""problems"" (""If you're afraid of the dark ..."") rather than follow a hero or heroine through a linear progression of plot points He has also collaborated with other artists on a number of children's books and in compilations of classic children's story illustrations. Cooper Edens"
"the Sleeping Beauty"" based on the version related by the Brothers Grimm; ""The Twelve Dancing Princesses"", retold from the Brothers Grimm; and ""The Enchanter's Daughter"" by Antonia Barber. Errol Le Cain Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 – 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. He won the 1984 Kate Greenaway Medal for ""Hiawatha's Childhood"" (Faber and Faber), recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. Descended from a French-Canadian great-grandfather, Le Cain was born 5 March 1941 to John and Minnie Le Cain in Singapore but evacuated to Agra, India with"
"unexpected, witty details"" and ""The jewel-toned art has beautiful luminescence; the elongated, somewhat blocky look of the characters reinforces the fantasy; and the mice are downright irresistible."", the School Library Journal wrote ""On the whole, though, this is a pleasant, attractive addition to folklore shelves."" while ""Horn Book"" found it a ""well-told tale"" The Princess Mouse: A Tale of Finland The Princess Mouse: A Tale of Finland is a 2003 children's book authored by Aaron Shepard and illustrated Leonid Gore. ""The Princess Mouse"" received mostly good reviews. ""Kirkus Reviews"" found it ""Prettily told, with sweet lessons about love and trust,"
"500 stores throughout the western United States. Edgar & Ellen Edgar & Ellen, created by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, is based on twelve-year-old orphaned twins who cause mischief and mayhem in their sickly sweet town, Nod's Limbs. The series currently contains nine books in addition to some side material. The Twin's name's are derived from American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe. ""Rare Beasts"" is the first, followed by ""Tourist Trap"", ""Under Town"", ""Pet's Revenge"", ""High Wire"" and ""Nod's Limbs"", with a sequel series premiering just a year later, currently consisting of ""Hot Air"", ""Frost Bites"" and ""Split Ends""."
"Stuart Tresilian Cecil Stuart Hazell Tresilian (1891-1974) was a British artist and illustrator, best known for his illustrations of children's books, including Rudyard Kipling's ""Animal Stories"" and ""All the Mowgli Stories"", and Enid Blyton's Adventure Series. He was born in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, on 12 July 1891, and grew up in Islington, London, where his father worked as a colliery clerk. He became a professional vocalist, and later served in the Army Audit Department. He studied art at Regent Street Polytechnic, where he became a pupil teacher, and gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art before the First"
"as ""Jack and the Beanstalk"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Puss in Boots"" and ""Sleeping Beauty"". Other traditional stories include ""Mother Goose"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""Robinson Crusoe"", ""The Wizard of Oz"", ""Babes in the Wood"" (combined with elements of ""Robin Hood""), ""Little Red Riding Hood"", ""Goldilocks and the Three Bears"", ""Sinbad"", ""St. George and the Dragon"", ""Bluebeard"", ""The Little Mermaid"" and ""Thumbelina"". Prior to about 1870, many other stories were made into pantomimes. While the familiarity of the audience with the original children's story is generally assumed, plot lines are almost always adapted for comic or satirical effect, and characters and situations"
"Just So Stories Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told ""just so"" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated"
"Tree, The Red Shoes, Rumpelstiltskin, The Little Tailor Volume 9: The Velveteen Rabbit, The Adventure of a Kite, The Sun Child, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Spring Volume 10: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Red Hen, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Three Mice, The Fisherman and His Wife Volume 11: The Three Little Pigs, Felicia and the Pink Flowers, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Princess and the Pea, Uncle Wiggly and the Three Kittens Volume 12: The Golden Goose, The Snow Queen, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Sally O'Malley The first"
"writing (and sometimes illustrating) children's books, mostly for Grosset & Dunlap. Titles included ""The Diary of Terwilliger Jellico"" (1935); ""The Story of the Automobile City"" (1936) and ""Clementina the Flying Pig"" (1939); in addition he illustrated an abridgement of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" published in 1939. In 1938 Western Publishing hired him as an art director/managing editor to help launch its line of comic books, financed and distributed by Dell. Lebeck oversaw Western's New York editorial office. Notably he hired Walt Kelly who became one of the star creators of the line, best known for originating Pogo while there."
"Ethel & Ernest Ethel & Ernest (subtitled ""A True Story"") is a graphic novel and animated film by English author and illustrator Raymond Briggs. It tells the story of the lives of Briggs' parents from their first meeting in 1928 to their deaths in 1971. The story is a chronological progression through poignant moments in the home lives of the titular couple, from when they first meet in 1928 to their deaths in 1971. The tone of the novel is quite sad, and human miscommunication is a central theme, interspersed with moments of humour. Ethel, at first a lady's maid,"
"The Pushcart War The Pushcart War is a popular children's novel by the American writer Jean Merrill, illustrated by Ronni Solbert and published by W. R. Scott in 1964. It is Merrill's best known work. The story is written in the style of a historical report from the future, looking back at the earlier events of a ""war"" on the streets of New York City between trucking companies and pushcart owners who use pea shooters as weapons to disrupt the trucks. Merrill said the idea for the novel brewed in her for several years while she lived in Greenwich Village."
"Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a show at the Egyptian Hall in London. His artistic"
"M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales, also known as Pals in Peril, is a series of children's novels by M. T. Anderson. They are part satire of, and part homage to, classic science fiction and action comic books and children's mystery and adventure series like The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew or Tom Swift. The black-and-white interior illustrations in the series are done by Kurt Cyrus. They are written for somewhat younger readers than Anderson's other books. The stories follow the bizarre, exciting, and hilarious adventures of three close friends, Lily Gefelty, Katie Mulligan, and Jasper"
"in John Martin's Book magazine for children. Gág's work caught the attention of Ernestine Evans, director of Coward-McCann's children's book division. Evans was delighted to learn that Gág had children's stories and illustrations in her folio and asked her to submit her own story with illustrations. The result, ""Millions of Cats"", was published in 1928. It had been developed from a story that Gág had written to entertain the children of friends. Anne Carol Moore (in the New York Herald Tribune) wrote: ""… It bears all the hallmarks of becoming a perennial favorite among children, and it takes a place"
"of books between 1915 and 1926: ""Teddy Tail in Nursery Rhyme Land"" (1915), ""Teddy Tail in Fairyland"" (1916), ""Teddy Tail's Alphabet"" (1921), and ""Teddy Tail's Adventures in the A B Sea"" (1926). The success of the character inspired other newspapers to create similar characters such as ""Pip and Squeak"", and ""Rupert Bear"". After World War I, Folkard continued to produce arrays of books for the firm of A. & C. Black including ""Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes"" (1919), ""British Fairy and Folk Tales"" (1920), ""Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass"" (1921), ""The Magic Egg"" (1922), and the Polish"
"Florence Eleanor Chaplin, who he married in 1904. By 1906 Shepard had become a successful illustrator, having produced work for illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, ""David Copperfield"", and ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"", while at the same time working as an illustrator on the staff of ""Punch"". The couple bought a house in London, but in 1905 moved to Shamley Green, near Guildford. Shepard was a prolific painter, showing in a number of major exhibitions. He exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham—a traditional venue for generic painters—as well as in the more radical atmosphere of Glasgow's Institute of Fine Arts,"
"'with more than one hundred illustrations designed by John Tenniel'. Tenniel himself did not think highly of his work there and took the opportunity to redraw some in the revised edition of 1884, which also used pictures by Ernest Henry Griset and Harrison Weir. Once the technology was in place for coloured reproductions, illustrations became ever more attractive. Notable early 20th century editions include V.S. Vernon Jones' new translation of the fables accompanied by the pictures of Arthur Rackham (London, 1912) and in the USA ""Aesop for Children"" (Chicago, 1919), illustrated by Milo Winter. The illustrations from Croxall's editions were"
"of two drops of quicksilver (Mercury) merging from Nesbit’s ""The Story of the Amulet"" and described her work as the “pleasantest reading of my childhood”. The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes ""Five Children and It"" (1902) and ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the ""it"" in ""Five Children and It"". As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly"