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BfK No. 227 - November 2017
BfK 227 November 2017

This issue’s cover illustration is from Fairy Tales by Hilary McKay, illustrated by Sarah Gibb. Thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help with this Christmas cover.
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Article Author: 
Brian Alderson

A short-title record of their collaborative work, divided
into broad categories organised chronologically by, and then within, each
category.

1]  Story
Collections

            1960  A Drink of Water and other stories          

                        2017
 Second ed.

2]  Independent
texts

            1961  The Boy who Sprouted Antlers

            1976  re-illustrated ed.       

            1984  The Hermit and the Bear

            1993  The Family Album  [verses]

            1993  Featherbrains

3]  Traditional
themes

            1969  Alphabet Soup

            1971  Sixes and Sevens

            1989  Old Mother Hubbard's Dog

            also
published in paperback in four parts

            1993  The Singing Tortoise and other Animal Folk
Tales

            2001
reissue with three new stories as Amazing Animal Stories

            1996  The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor

            1997  The Prince's Gifts

            2010
reissue as Quentin Blake's Magical Tales

            2017  All the Year Round  [the months of the year in verse]

4]  Picture-book
Stories

            1969  The Bears' Winter House

            1970  The Bears' Water Picnic

            1972  Mouse Trouble

            1974  Beatrice and Vanessa

            1977  The Young Performing Horse

            1979  The Wild Washerwomen

            1982  Rumbelow's Dance

            1988  Our Village [verses on the residents
therein]

            1995  Mr Nodd's Ark

            1998  Up with Birds!

            1999  The Heron and the Crane [text from A
Drink of Water
]

            2013  The Fabulous Foskett Family Circus [verses
to artwork for the Nightingale Project]

            2015  Three Little Owls [in verse after a
text by Emanuele Luzzati]

5] Japes

            1974  The Puffin Book of Improbable Records,
compiled with QB

             1991  revised reissue as The World's Laziest
Duck

            1984  Crash! The Waldo and Wanda Book of
Practical Hints
[text in script by QB ]

            1994  The Do-It-Yourself House that Jack Built

Not seen

            1994  Quentin Blake Agenda

Sir Quentin tells us 'Fontein in Holland asked us to do a QB
Agenda
. JY did verses which were translated into Dutch verse.  It was also used by Gallimard as Douze Mois
pour Rire,
the verses translated into prose.  It was never published as a diary in English
but recently formed the basis of All the Year Round.

Brian Alderson, October, 2017

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