Victor Ambrus III

This story By Victor Ambrus published in 1972 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, is really a parable of our 'data centre' time. 

A selfish sultan greedily demands water for his daily bath, not realising the hardships this is causing.

If you have a baddy in a story better make him Bad!

Victor Ambrus II

 

The Little Cockerel' by Victor Ambrus published in 1966, is about a cockerel trying to regain his poor mistresses gold coin after a greedy sultan takes it for himself. In setting himself on this task the cockerel faces untold tortures and difficulties. 

I am most upset by this terrible woman smiling as she puts a live cockerel in the fire! But the loose wonderful drawings and incredible colour and story are just fabulous.

Victor Ambrus I

 

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).