Clive Spong
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Clive Spong is an English illustrator of The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry. He illustrated the books written by Christopher Awdry published since 1983.
Books
- Really Useful Engines
- James and the Diesel Engines
- Great Little Engines
- More About Thomas the Tank Engine
- Gordon the High-Speed Engine
- Toby, Trucks and Trouble
- Thomas and the Twins
- Jock the New Engine
- Thomas and the Great Railway Show
- Thomas Comes Home
- Henry and the Express
- Wilbert the Forest Engine
- Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines
- New Little Engine
- Thomas and Victoria
- Thomas and His Friends
History
Spong is a graduate of Leicester College of Art, like John T. Kenney and Clarence Reginald Dalby, who were among the earlier illustrators of the Railway Series books. He remained the illustrator throughout the run of Christopher Awdry's 14 books, illustrating more titles in the series than any other artist.
Spong was one of the first illustrators to break Wilbert's golden rule about engines having no faces outside of Sodor – he did this in book 32 of the series,
Railway Series spinoffs
Spong illustrated pop-up books and the spin-offs, Thomas's Christmas Party, Thomas and the Evil Diesel, Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree, and also The Rev. W. Awdry's extended rewrite of Thomas Comes to Breakfast. Some of his character illustrations were used to depict characters in
My Thomas Story Library
Clive Spong did the illustrations for the My Thomas Story Library book BoCo, along with Jerry Smith. This is the only non-Railway Series book he worked on.
References
- ^ Bradbury, Lorna (4 June 2010). "Thomas the Tank Engine: 65 and still running". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
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