AN ALPHABET OF ANIMALS

By Yvonne Gilbert

Many years ago, when my son was born I made friends with an English print maker called Christopher Wormell. As our babies played together I got to know Christopher and became a life-long fan of his work. He was working in miniature on woodblocks, exquisite images of the British landscape, each one a tiny world of its own.

He has illustrated many books over the years and I am posting one here where the illustrations are all lino block prints. With their bold, strong lines and clear colours they jump off the page with an immediacy that is a joy to behold. This alphabet book follows the tradition of Victorian primers but with a bold modernity that updates it for the present day.

With a hardback cloth bound cover and affixed colour plate it has standout shelf appeal. Each illustration was hand cut, generally 4 blocks were cut for each picture and in some cases more than one colour ink was applied to achieve a shaded effect.

William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1990
ISBN: 0 00 191378 6