George Adamson - Obituaries - Times Online
The illustrator George Admason died on March 5th. A Times obituary appeared yesterday:
Ted Hughes?s first collection of poetry for children, Meet My Folks! (1961), was submitted to Adamson for illustration. Sylvia Plath?s verdict on his efforts was that they were ?very fine and witty?. He followed in the path of Heath Robinson, illustrating new editions of Norman Hunter?s Professor Branestawm books in the mid-1960s and also illustrated The Faber Book of Nursery Verse(1958) and Alan Garner?s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) and The Moon of Gomrath (1963)... ...
A further obituary from The Herald:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/35903.html
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