Born in a small Yorkshire village in 1940, this author-illustrator grew up watching his dad paint every day after returning from the coal mines. He fulfilled his father's dream by attending art school in London. The editor of Oxford University Press loved his paintings and encouraged him to illustrate children's books. His bright colors were expensive to reproduce so it was decided he should illustrate classics with wide appeal. His first was an alphabet book, followed by The Hare and the Tortoise, The Miller, the Boy and the Donkey and other fables.This is Brian Wildsmith.
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