Harold Jones (artist)
Harold Jones (22 February 1904 – 1992)lithographs illustrating This Year: Next Year (1937), a collection of verses by Walter de la Mare.[2]
Jones was born in London and studied illustration there from 1920 at
Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1922–1923; and then on scholarship at the Royal College of Art.[1]
Jones's most acclaimed work was Lavender's Blue: A book of nursery rhymes (1954), a collection of
Franklin Watts in 1956,[4]
was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association and to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1960.[1]
The largest public archive of Harold Jones's papers and illustrations is at
de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.[1]
Selected works
Written and illustrated by Harold Jones
- The Visit to the Farm (1939)
- The Enchanted Night (1947)
- The Childhood of Jesus (1964)
- There and Back Again (1977)
- Tales from Aesop (1981)
- The Forest: Peep Show (1981)
- A Happy Christmas (1983)
- Tales to Tell (1984)
Books by other authors, illustrated by Harold Jones
- Mary Evelyn Atkinson– August Adventure (1936)
- Walter de la Mare – This Year, Next Year (1937)
- C.S. Lewis – Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
- M. E. Atkinson - The Compass Points North (1938)
- M. E. Atkinson - Crusoe Island (1941)
- M. E. Atkinson - Going Gangster (1942)
- John Pudney – Elegy for Tom Riding (1947)
- M. E. Atkinson - Smugglers' Gap (1947)
- Kathleen Lines – Four to Fourteen: A Library of Books for Children (1950)
- Kathleen Lines – Lavender’s Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1954)
- Kathleen Lines - Once in Royal David’s City: A Picture Book of the Nativity (1956)
- Henry A. Fagan - Ninya, A Fantasy of a Strange Little World (1956). May only be dust jacket illustration.
- Donald Suddaby – Prisoners of Saturn: An Interplanetary Adventure (1957)
- William Blake – Songs of Innocence (1958)
- Kathleen Lines – A Ring of Tales (1958)
- Elfrida Vipont – Bless This Day: A Book of Prayer for Children (1958)
- Kathleen Lines – Jack and the Beanstalk: A Book of Nursery Stories (1960)
- Kathleen Lines – Noah and the Ark (1961)
- Charles Kingsley – The Water Babies (text by Kathleen Lines) (1961)
- William Shakespeare – Songs from Shakespeare (1961)
- Robert Browning – The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1962)
- Five Little Pigs (Warren Editions, 1974)
- Lewis Carroll – The Hunting of the Snark (1975)
- Oscar Wilde – The Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde (1976)
- Paul Ries Collin - Calling Bridge (1976)
- Ruth Manning-Sanders – The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: Aesop’s Fable Retold (1977)
- Penelope Lively – The Voyage of QV66 (1978)
- Naomi Lewis – The Silent Playmate (or The Magic Doll) – A Collection of Doll Stories (1979)
- Harold Jacobs – Silver Bells and Cockle Shells: A Bunby Adventure (1979)
Books by other authors, with dust jacket illustrations by Harold Jones
- H. G. Wells - Star Begotten (UK edition)
- H. G. Wells - The Brothers (UK edition)
- H. G. Wells - The Croquet Player (UK edition)
References
- ^ a b c d Harold Jones papers, de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, retrieved 23 July 2012
- ^ "Jones, Harold 1904–1992", The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English, Cambridge University Press, 2001, retrieved 30 September 2010
- ^ Kate Greenaway Medal, Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University, retrieved 23 July 2012
- ^ Lavender's blue, a book of nursery rhymes, Library of Congress, retrieved 23 July 2012
- ^ Harold Jones Collection, Seven Stories Collections Department, retrieved 11 June 2014
External links
- Kathleen Lines at JacketFlap
- Harold Jones, the Alphabet of Illustrators
- Harold Jones at Library of Congress, with 14 library catalogue records (mainly previous page of browse report, as 'Jones, Harold, 1904–' without '1992')
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