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• Hall, Dorothy
• Hargreaves, Georgina
• Hassal, Ian
• Henning, Paul and Weissenborn, Hellmuth
• Johnson, Joyce A
• Kay, Bruno
• Kerr, Tom
• Land, Jessie
• Lane Foster, Marcia
• Lloyd, Stanley
• Lodge, Grace
• Lovell, Kenneth

Dorothy Hall

Georgina Hargreaves (1939)

Hargreaves was a later Blyton illustrator, taking over the illustrations of The Enchanted Wood series for Dean publishers after the death of Janet Grahame Johnstone in 1979. She illustrated the early 1980's editions of The Magic Faraway Tree, The Folk of the Faraway Tree, The Wishing Chair and The Wishing Chair Again. She also illustrated The Little Witch Dog and The Green Elf.

Hargreaves was born in Bolton, Lancashire and studied at the Bolton Art School. Shortly after finishing school, she spent several years in Canada. She began working for Dean and Son, retelling many classic stories and providing illustrations for books such as Heidi, Peter Pan, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Tom Sawyer and Alice in Wonderland. She recently designed the set for a production of Jack and the Beanstalk by Peter Denyer at the Carver Theatre, and is very active in the local art community in Wilmslow near Manchester.

She is married (since 1960) and has two children. Her daughter wrote a series about a horse named Prince Brownie, which were illustrated by Hargreaves. She currently lives outside Manchester, and from my calculations would be aged 66.

Images below by Georgina Hargreaves (L-R) Cover art and two interior illustrations from The Folk of the Faraway Tree, The Little Witch Dog, Prince Brownie's Rescue, an etching of Maple Lock.

Ian Hassal

Ian Hassal illustrated the dust wrapper only for Blyton's Red Pixie Book.

Paul Henning
Hellmuth Weissenborn (1898 - 1982)

Paul Henning took photographs of Hellmuth Weissenborn's clay models to create the beautiful colour plates for the 1945 original edition of The First Christmas. This creates quite a different "feel" to the book in comparison to Blyton's other works.

I could find very little information on Paul Henning, including dates of birth and death. However, I have found that he is a photographic illustrator who used almost anything for his book illustrations. In Toad Goes Caravanning from the Wind in the Willows series, published by Methuen in 1947, he used dolls in his photographs. In Who Killed Cock Robin? published by Methuen in 1945 he used stuffed birds throughout, and in First Things published by The Platt & Monk Co. in 1947 he took photographs of sceneries, animals and items. His other collaboration with Weissenborn was Punch and Judy published by Methuen in 1944, where the pair used puppets.

Hellmuth Weissenborn on the other hand has an enourmous amount of information published on the web about him. He was a famous artist who fled Leipzig, Germany in 1939 and settled in London. From 1941 to 1970, he taught at the Ravensbourne College of Art, Bromley. He married Lesley Macdonald in 1946, and has created artwork in watercolour, ink, wood engraving, vinyl etchings and clay sculpture among many other mediums. He has illustrated several books including those listed above where he worked with Paul Henning, as well as many titles for Acorn Press, Whittington Press and Methuen.

Images below by Henning and Weissenborn together from The First Christmas

Images below by Henning from Who Killed Cock Robin?

Images below by Weissenborn

Joyce A Johnson

Joyce A Johnson illustrated the 1950's World Book editions of Blyton's Tell-A-Story books. These include The Queer Adventure, The Good Morning Book Tales of Green Hedges and Now For a Story. She was also responsible for the beautiful illustrations in the 1949 Latimer House edition of The Robin Hood Book, the cover art for The Fifth Bedside Book and the original edition of Come To The Circus published in 1948 by Newnes.

Johnson also illustrated the rare first edition of The Three Golliwogs, which was shortly after replaced by the lovely Rene Cloke illustrations. Thank you to Tony Summerfield of the Enid Blyton Society for the rare scan of this title.

Images below by Joyce A Johnson (L-R) The Three Golliwogs first edition, The Queer Adventure, Now For a Story, Tales of Green Hedges, The Robin Hood Book, Come to the Circus.

Bruno Kay

Tom Kerr

Jessie Land

Marcia Lane Foster (1897 - ?)

I can find very little personal information on Marcia Lane Foster, however I did find details of several books that contain her artwork. Foster's Blyton affiliation seems to end with Happy Day Stories, published in

Her most famous illustrations are probably for the The Ambermere Treasure (the final book in Malcolm Saville's popular Jillies series), and she also illustrated the second edition of Redshank's Warning from the same series. Also accredited to Foster are We Hunted Hounds, part of the Collins Pony Club Library series, Let's Do It published by Collins in 1938, The Tufty Club books from the 1960's and The Summer in Between by Eleanor Spence, which was awarded Book of the Year in 1960 by The Children's Book Council of Australia.

Images below by Marcia Lane Foster (L-R) Happy Day Stories, Let's Do It, Redshank's Warning, The Second Tufty Club Book, interior illustration from one of the Tufty Club books.

Stanley Lloyd

Stanley Lloyd illustrated all of the first edition Malory Towers series. His illustrations were replaced by those of Lilian Buchanan in the 1950's. See the Lilian Buchanan listing for more information on this change.

Lloyd was a prolific and famous illustrator in his time. Besides his work for The Detective Magazine in 1923-4 and Woman’s Magazine in 1935-6, he illustrated many works by J. Ivester Lloyd including The People of the Valley (Country Life 1943), Well Ridden(The Citadel Press 1949), Johnny Rides Out(The Citadel Press 1948) and Joy Francis, notably The Greystone Girls series (Blackie 1940's - 50's).

He excelled at horse artwork especially, as shown in his Malory Towers cover art and his work for Primrose Cumming on her horse stories Silver Snaffles (Blackie 1937), The Wednesday Pony (Blackie 1939) and The Chestnut Filly (Blackie 1940) as well as B Cavanna's Spurs for Suzanna (Lutterworth 1952), The Horse from India by Brian Fairfax-Lucy (Muller 1944) and Horseman's Island by Marjorie M Oliver (Country Life 1950).

Stanley Lloyd's illustrations can also be seen in Friends of the Van by Brenda E Spender (Country Life 1949), The Fighting Fferriats (in The British Girls Annual, Amalgamated Press 1930), Bonny The Pony by Ruth Clarke (Warne 1959), Hoo Hooey - An Argentine Arcady and How I Came There by HJ Muir (Country Life 1947).

The first book Lloyd authored was Jam Sauce: A Humorous Novel (Stanley Paul 1947), a story about three young men a beautiful girl, missing jewels, crazy crooks and a maharajah! Apparently he did write other books, but I'm unable to find a record of these.

Images below by Stanley Lloyd (L-R): First Term at Malory Towers; Second Form at Malory Towers; Third Year at Malory Towers; Upper Fourth at Malory Towers; In the Fifth at Malory Towers; Last Term at Malory Towers; Silver Snaffles (Primrose Cumming); Two pieces of interior artwork from Silver Snaffles

Grace Lodge

Grace Lodge illustrated many Blyton books including A Story Party at Green Hedges and A Picnic Party With Enid Blyton (1949 and 1951, both published by Hodder and Stoughton), The Birthday Kitten (Lutterworth 1958), Just Time for a Story (Macmillan), The Latimer House publication of Tales of Toyland (replaced artwork by Hilda McGavin), Three Boys and a Circus, The Children at Green Meadows, Holiday House, Those Dreadful Children, Will The Fiddler (1960), All of the Latimer House Brer Rabbit books, Bible Stories From the Old Testament (Frederick Muller) and Before I Go to Sleep. She contributed illustrations (along with Hilda Boswell and Kathleen Gell) to Blyton's The Daffodil Story Book (Latimer House) and The Second Holiday Book (Sampson Low), and with various illustrators to non-Blyton works such as Uncle Mac's Own Story Book by Derek McCulloch (Sampson Low), Once Upon a Time (Blackie & Son), Toddles' Happy Book (Collins) and Collins Children's Annual - Eleventh Year (Collins 1925).

Lodge also illustrated (among many others) Skipper The Dog from the Sea by Judith M Berrisford (Brockhampton Press 1955), My Picture Book of Hymns and The A.B.C Picture Book of Prayers (both Ward Lock) and Purbeck Marble by Llewellyn Pridham (Hutchinson 1958).

Images below by Grace Lodge (L-R) The Children at Green Meadows; Holiday House; Those Dreadful Children; The Third Brer Rabbit Book; cover art, colour plates and interior illustrations from Before I Go to Sleep, Skipper The Dog from the Sea and My Picture Book of Hymns.

Kenneth Lovell

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