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Nippers (book Series)
''Nippers'' was a children's book series for early readers established by Leila Berg and published by Macmillan Educational in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1983. The series deliberately featured working-class characters and settings. History Berg, who contributed many titles to the series herself, explained her motivation in a letter to the ''Times Literary Supplement'': The series encountered opposition, "on the grounds that children were being given what they already knew and that the vocabulary of the stories was impoverished and limiting". Nevertherless, ''Nippers'' became firmly established. ''Little Nippers'', a series for younger children, followed in 1972. In the early 1970s, Berg also recruited several Black authors to write for Nippers, including Beryl Gilroy and Petronella Breinburg. Other contributors included J. L. Carr, Charles Causley, Mary Cockett, Helen Cresswell, Joan Eadington, Nigel Gray, Trevor Griffiths, Geraldine Kaye, Janet McNeill, Helen Solomon and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leila Berg
Leila Berg (12 November 1917 – 17 April 2012) was an English children's author. She was also known as a journalist and a writer on education and children's rights. Berg was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Biography Berg was brought up in Salford, Lancashire, in a Jewish doctor's family. She wrote vividly about that part of her life in ''Flickerbook'' (1997), describing also later meetings in Cambridge through her older brother, particularly with Margot Heinemann and J. B. S. Haldane, whom she would reference obliquely in the early ''Chunky'' books. She associated with Britain's Young Communist League members at the time of the Spanish Civil War, in which she lost two lovers, and eventually joined the movement. Her first journalist's job was with the British communist daily the ''Daily Worker''. Berg was influenced in her thinking by the psychologist Susan Isaacs. After working as a journalist in World War II, during which she married and started a family, she began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Belsky
Margaret Constance Belsky ''née'' Owen, better known by her pen name Belsky, (20 June 1919 – 26 January 1989), was a British cartoonist and illustrator. Belsky was born on 20 June 1919 in Wareham, Dorset to Albert Edward Owen and Margaret Constance Davies-Bunton. She attended the Bournemouth School of Art and later studied engraving and illustration at the Royal College of Art. Belsky won a cartoon competition for ''Punch'' in the 1930s. It was at the Royal College of Art that she met her future husband, Czech exile and sculptor, Franta Belsky. Franta introduced her work to editors he knew at the magazine '' Lilliput'', where Belsky became a regular contributor. In 1944, Margaret and Franta married, with Belsky taking on her husband's name for her single word signature, disguising her gender. Belsky started working for the '' Daily Herald'' in 1951 and became their first ever pocket cartoonist, at the same time becoming the first woman to draw a daily front-page cartoon. Bels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Series Of Children's Books
Series may refer to: People with the name * Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series * George Series (1920–1995), English physicist Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Series, the ordered sets used in serialism including tone rows * Harmonic series (music) * Serialism, including the twelve-tone technique Types of series in arts, entertainment, and media * Anime series * Book series * Comic book series * Film series * Manga series * Podcast series * Radio series * Television series * "Television series", the Australian, British, and a number of others countries' equivalent term for the North American "television season", a set of episodes produced by a television serial * Video game series * Web series Mathematics and science * Series (botany), a taxonomic rank between genus and species * Series (mathematics), the sum of a sequence of terms * Series (stratigraphy), a stratigraphic unit deposited during a certain interval of geolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan Publishers Books
MacMillan, Macmillan, McMillen or McMillan may refer to: People * McMillan (surname) * Clan MacMillan, a Highland Scottish clan * Harold Macmillan, British statesman and politician * James MacMillan, Scottish composer * William Duncan MacMillan, American physicist and educator Places Australia * Division of McMillan, electoral district in Australian House of Representatives in Victoria Canada * Macmillan River, a river in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada * MacMillan Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada United States * McMillan Mesa, a mesa in Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona. * McMillan, Michigan * McMillan Township, Luce County, Michigan * McMillan Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan * McMillan, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community * McMillan, Wisconsin, a town * McMillan (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * McMillan Reservoir in Washington, D.C. Companies and organizations * McMillan (agency), a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Him
George Him (4 August 1900 – 4 April 1982) was a Polish born British designer responsible for a number of notable posters, book illustrations and advertising campaigns for a wide range of clients. Biography Him was born Jerzy Himmelfarb in 1900 to a Polish-Jewish family in Lodz, Poland which was then occupied by the Russian Empire After schooling and further education in Warsaw Him studied Roman Law in Moscow but left in 1917 when the Russian Revolution forced the closure of the university he was attending. He moved to Bonn and by 1924 had completed a PhD at the University of Bonn on the comparative history of religions before deciding to study graphic art in Leipzig. Him studied at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Art but even before he graduated in 1928 was already undertaking commercial commissions. Him returned to Poland where, in 1933, he changed his name and also established a design partnership with Jan Le Witt. Working as Lewitt-Him, the two established a distinctive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Biro
Balint Stephen Biro (Budapest, October 6, 1921 – July 4, 2014) was a children's author, artist and illustrator. He received his education in Budapest and London. His studio was located in Amersham in Buckinghamshire. Writing From an interview in the early 1970s: "My writing is mainly concerned with my vintage car "Gumdrop." It was four years ago that my publishers suggested that it was about time that I wrote a book for children and not merely illustrate one; and I decided on Gumdrop as the main character. "I write so as to give my alter-ego a good chance for drawing pictures, though I find that the story I invent tends to run away with itself, leaving me, the illustrator, behind! Each story tends to be based on personal experience and, equally, each tends to grow out of that into the imagination. Each book seems to take a few months to gestate, and then I write it in one long day (or night)." Illustration In the 1950s and 1960s Biro illustrated many book covers for famou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Hemmant
Lynette Hemmant was born in London, grew up in South Wales, Australia and the Home Counties. She went to St Martin’s School of Art before her sixteenth birthday, graduated in 1958 and started working as an illustrator of children’s books for Hamish Hamilton, later OUP and other publishers. She illustrated several classics: Dickens’s “Christmas Carol”, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, as well as more modern children’s authors. She was commissioned to design a set of Christmas stamps for the Island of Guernsey and a cover for Reader’s Digest magazine. She was listed in Best Children’s Books of the Year and her work was used for tv storytelling in the UK. For many years she was a contributor to the magazine “Cricket” and its sister magazines in the USA and created several of their covers. Also in the USA, she was commissioned by the Unicover Corporation of Wyoming to paint the twelve months of the year in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived in London. Random House profile Retrieved 1 January 2007. Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration. In 2007, her 1977 winner, ''Dogger'', was named the public's favourite winning work of the award's first fifty years. She won the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Rose
Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose (born 1935) is a British illustrator of children's books. He won the 1960 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject, for ''Old Winkle and the Seagulls'', written by his wife Elizabeth (Liz) Rose and published by Faber and Faber. Gerald was born in Hong Kong. During the Second World War, his father became a prisoner of war, and his sister and mother were interned at Stanley civilian detention camp. He studied at Lowestoft School of Art and the Royal Academy. Elizabeth (née Elizabeth Jane Pretty) and Gerald Rose began to produce children's books, she writing and he illustrating. ''How St. Francis Tamed the Wolf'' was published by Faber in 1958. Gerald was a commended runner-up for the Greenaway Medal next year, when the librarians introduced the distinction, recognising ''Wuffles Goes to Town''. In 1979 Gerald Rose won the Premio Critici in Erba in Italy for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Chilton
Irma Chilton (born Mair Elizabeth Irma Evans, 12 November 1930 – 1990), also known as I. M. Chilton, was a Welsh children's writer in the English and Welsh languages. She was a recipient of the Tir na n-Og Award presented by the Welsh Books Council, and of eisteddfod prizes. Early life and education Irma Evans was born in Loughor, in Glamorgan, close to the border with Carmarthen. Her parents were Iorworth Evans, a furnaceman, and his wife Esther Jane Muxworthy Evans. She attended the University of Wales, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1951. Writing Chilton was a teacher. Chilton's first book, ''Take Away The Flowers & Fuller's World'', combined two science fiction stories about a pilot character named Tom Davies; Heinemann published the volume in 1967. She wrote children's books in both English and Welsh and won eisteddfod prizes for them. They include the novels ''String of Time'' (1968, a time-travel story later retitled ''Nightmare'' (1972), ''Goldie'' (1969, about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Worsley Adamson
George Worsley Adamson, RE, MCSD (7 February 1913 – 5 March 2005) was a book illustrator, writer, and cartoonist, who held American and British dual citizenship from 1931. Early life Adamson was born in the Bronx, New York City. His parents were George William Adamson, a master car builder for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, and Mary Lydia (Lily, née Howard). His father, born in Glasgow, Scotland, and his mother, born in Wigan, Lancashire, had moved to New York City from Bombay in 1910. Following the death of his mother in February 1921, George Adamson sailed to England with his father, his Aunt Florence, and his two sisters, Marie and Dorothy, on the Cunard liner RMS ''Caronia'', landing at Liverpool on July 10. His father sailed back to New York in October 1921, where he died the following year. George Adamson was educated at the Wigan Mining and Technical College and the Liverpool City School of Art, where he studied etching and engraving under Geoffrey We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Front
Charles Front is a British illustrator, best known for designing the lettering on the 1965 Beatles album ''Rubber Soul''. He has illustrated several books, including ''A Child's Bible'', ''Never Say Macbeth'', ''The Great White Whale'', ''The Little Dressmaker'' and ''Carbonel and Calidor''. He worked on the BBC children's TV series '' Jackanory''. Front taught art and illustration at the Barking College Of Technology in the 1970s, and one of his students was special effects artist and animator Alan Friswell who is currently the official restorer for the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation. Friswell credits Front as being an inspirational teacher and influence on his work. He was the art editor of ''MANNA'', the magazine of the Reform Judaism movement. Sheila and Charles Front created children's books together. They are the parents of actress Rebecca Front. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
