The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom wrote a novel in 1948 that featured illustrations by who?
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The Otterbury Incident The Otterbury Incident is a novel for children by Cecil Day-Lewis first published in the UK in 1948 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, and in the USA in 1949. Day-Lewis's second and final children's book, the novel is an adaptation of a French screenplay, "Nous les gosses" (Us Kids), that was filmed in 1941.
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Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He was the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis.
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The Cuckoo Clock The Cuckoo Clock by Mary Louisa Molesworth is a British children's fantasy novel published in 1877. The book was published under her pen name Ennis Graham but was then reprinted with her own name in 1882. Original illustrations were done by Walter Crane. A new edition of "The Cuckoo Clock" was published in 1914 with illustrations by Maria L. Kirk.
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Helen Cooper (illustrator) Cooper has twice been awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. She won for "The Boy Who Wouldn't Go To Bed" in 1996, which she wrote and illustrated. In 1998 she won for "Pumpkin Soup", which she also wrote and illustrated. They were consecutive projects for her.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," and "A Child's Garden of Verses".
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Helen Allingham Helen Allingham {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'RWS', '4': "} (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was an English watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era.
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Lark Rise to Candleford Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century. They were written by Flora Thompson and first published together in 1945. The stories were previously published separately as "Lark Rise" in 1939 (illustrated by Lynton Lamb), "Over to Candleford" in 1941 and "Candleford Green" in 1943.
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Edmund Candler Edmund Candler (1874 – 1926) was an English journalist, novelist and educator notable for his literary depictions of colonial India. His fictional tropes and settings are comparable in many ways to those of Rudyard Kipling, a writer whom he self-consciously imitated.
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Arthur Wallis Mills Arthur Wallis Mills (often abbreviated A. Wallis Mills, as well as A. W. Mills) (1878–1940) was a British artist. As well as traditional art forms, Mills also produced artwork and occasional cartoons for "Punch Magazine", "The Strand Magazine", "The Humourist", "The Black and White Illustrated Budget" and "The Royal Magazine" in the United Kingdom as well as "The Wanganui Chronicle" in New Zealand. He also illustrated "A Cabinet Secret" (Guy Boothby, 1901), the 1908 edition of "The Novels of Jane Austen in Ten Volumes", "The Zincali - An account of the gypsies of Spain" (George Borrow, 1841) and "The Red Book of Heroes" (Andrew Lang, 1909).
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Colin McNaughton Colin McNaughton (born 1 May 1951) is a British writer and illustrator of over 70 children's books. He is also a poet, focusing mainly on humorous children's poetry. He trained in graphic design at the Central School of Art and Design in London followed by an MA in illustration at the Royal College of Art. He lives in London.
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Nada the Lily Nada the Lily is an historical novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard, published in 1892. It is said to be inspired by Haggard's time in South Africa (1875–82). It was illustrated by Charles H. M. Kerr.
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Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010) is a reimagining of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" written by British-American author J.T. Holden. It tells the story of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (with a "Slight Detour "Through the Looking-Glass"") in 19 rhyming poems, each written in the same style as Lewis Carroll's original verse. The book includes 36 illustrations by American artist Andrew Johnson.
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William Tell Told Again William Tell Told Again is a retelling of the William Tell legend in prose and verse, with illustrations. The main prose element was written by P. G. Wodehouse, while Philip Dadd supplied the frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations, all in colour. The 15 illustrations were accompanied by verses written by John W. Houghton.
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in July 1908. Potter composed the book at Hill Top, a working farm in the Lake District she bought in 1905. Following the purchase, her works began to focus on country and village life, incorporating large casts of animal characters and sinister villains. "Jemima Puddle-Duck" was the first of her books set wholly at the farm with background illustrations based on the farm buildings and yard, and nearby locales.
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Flora Thompson Flora Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, "Lark Rise to Candleford".
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Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.
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The White Deer The White Deer is a 96-page children's novel written by James Thurber (author of "The Thirteen Clocks" and "The Wonderful O") in 1945. It is a fairy tale about the quest of the three sons of King Clode (Thag and Gallow, the hunters, and Jorn, the poet) who are set perilous tasks to win the heart and hand of a princess without her memories who had once been a beautiful white deer. The cover and four color plates were illustrated by Don Freeman.
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Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones) "Black Cross" (AKA "Hezekiah Jones", after the main character) is a poem by Joseph Simon Newman, published in his 1948 collection "It Could Be Verse!".
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Graham Oakley Graham Oakley (born 27 August 1929) is an English writer and illustrator best known for children's books. According to the 2008 Modern Classics edition of "The Church Mice", he lives in Lyme Regis, Dorset and is "mostly retired".
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Esther Waters (film) Esther Waters is a 1948 British drama film directed by Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud and starring Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde (first credited film appearance), and Cyril Cusack. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel "Esther Waters" by George Moore.
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The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley.
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Clockwork (novel) Clockwork (also called Clockwork, or All Wound Up) is an illustrated short children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Doubleday. It was first published in the United States by Arthur A. Levine Books in 1998. The Doubleday edition was illustrated by Peter Bailey and the Arthur A. Levine Books edition was illustrated by Leonid Gore. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and for a Carnegie Medal in 1997.