The lushness of this purple and richness of the pen illustrations by John Lawrence is so wonderful.
I am loving discovering these illustrated music books by the BBC.
This one is the '1967 BBC Songbook Music For Schools'. John Lawrence (born 15 September 1933 in Hastings is an illustrator and wood engraver. Twice awarded the Francis Williams Award for illustration (sponsored by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London), and been runner-up for the Kurt Emil - Maschler Award.
And like that I am off on a new tangent of BBC music books, with this fabulous blue one by Victor Ambrus (1935-2021) published in 1974.
Victor studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts for three years (1953–56), however his four-year course was interrupted by the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet-backed government, during which a building that he and his fellow students held came under fire from the Soviets. He fled Hungry in 1956 for Austria and then England where he won a Gulbenkian scholarship to study printmaking and illustration at the Royal college of Art for three years (1957–60).
Caroline Sharpe's illustrated 'Singing Together BBC Radio For Schools Autumn 1969. The first of a gold mine of amazing illustrations for this production by an array of incredible mid century illustrators.
‘Time and Tune’ was a BBC schools radio series that started in the 1950s, covering music for primary school pupils. Radio programmes were accompanied by these wonderfully illustrated booklets containing the words and music for the featured songs.
'The Perilous Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor', illustrated by Caroline Sharpe published by Child's Play International Ltd., 1974
'My Fierce Tiger', written by James Hepburn, Illustrated by Caroline Sharpe with her characteristic watercolours published in 1971 by Chatto and Windus Ltd.
'Lumpo the Postman' written by Steve Gibbons illustrated by Caroline Sharpe, published in 1976. This is one of two books about Lumpo, the second being 'Lumpo and the Fire' also published in 1976. It has beautiful bright watercolour illustrations full of charm and character by Caroline Sharpe.
'Mrs Easter and the Storks' by Violet Hilda Drummond (1911-2000) published 1957. Beautiful fluid exciting illustration and a gorgeous story for which she was awarded the 1954 Kate Greenaway Medal.
'I Wonder How, I Wonder Why', A book of poems written by an American poet Aileen Fisher, illustrated by Carol Barker published 1962.
