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Edward Ardizzone

Author, Illustrator

(1900 - 1979)

Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE, RA (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979) was an English artist, writer and illustrator, chiefly of children’s books.

For Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956), which he wrote and illustrated, Ardizzone won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year’s best children’s book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005) it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.



Bibliography

The 1929 Christmas Tree Annual (1929)

An anthology for the holidays published in aid of the Children’s Country Holiday Fund.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1961)

Set along the Mississippi River, this book traces the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a fugitive slave. The Great American Novel.

 

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1959)

An orphan, raised in the work house runs away and makes his way to London to seek his fortune. This is the World’s Classics edition #8 of the series. Dust jacket is by Ardizzone.

The Adventures of Roderick Random (1959)

Roderick and his friend Hugh Strap are pressed into the British Navy and serve on a warship and a privateer. This World’s Classics edition, #353, has a dust jacket by Ardizzone.

Author(s): Tobias Smollett
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Adventures of Tim (1985)

Six stories of Tim, a small boy who lived in a house by the sea. Includes Tim and Ginger, Tim and Charlotte, Tim’s Friend Towser, Tim to the Lighthouse, Tim in Danger and Tim all Alone.

Author(s): Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1961)

In the 1840s a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

All in the Downs (1934)

A naval novel of the days of Pitt and Pompadour. A ship carrying passengers joins a convoy during the French War. Not a very successful effort. Dust jacket by Ardizzone shows a nautical scene.

Author(s): Frank Pollard
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Alley (1964)

Connie and her friend Billy investigate a mystery in their neighborhood.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Angel and the Donkey (1969)

The story of Balaam’s ass.

Author(s): James Reeves
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Ann at Highwood Hall (1966)

A collection of poems by a noted British author.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Robert Graves
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Arcadian Ballads (1977)

A collection of poems based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Author(s): James Reeves
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Ardizzone’s English Fairy Tales (1980)

Twelve traditional English tales, including Jack the Giant-Killer, Henny-Penny, and The Story of the Three Bears.

Author(s): Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Ardizzone’s Hans Andersen (1978)

Fourteen of the Danish master’s familiar tales.

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Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Ardizzone’s Kilvert (1976)

Extracts from the diary of an English clergyman in the nineteenth century. He died at the age of thirty-nine in 1879.

Author(s): Francis Kilvert
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

As If She Were Mine (1962)

The author’s first novel.

Author(s): Alex Hamilton
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Back to the Local (1949)

A collection of essays on the changes in the pub scene wrought by the Second World War.

Baggage to the Enemy (1941)

An account of the war artist’s escape during the debacle of June 1940.

Author(s): Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Barchester Towers (1953)

When the bishopric of Barchester falls to an outsider, the set ways of the cathedral close are all upset. This edition is in two volumes. Volume Two contains 279 pages.

Author(s): Anthony Trollope
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Barchester Towers (1980)

When the bishopric of Barchester falls to an outsider, the set ways of the cathedral close are all upset. This World’s Classics edition is in one volume. The number of illustrations has been reduced.

Author(s): Anthony Trollope
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Battle Lost and Won (1978)

A novel set in Egypt at the time of the Battle of El Alamein sports a dust jacket by Ardizzone. This is volume two of The Levant Trilogy.

Author(s): Olivia Manning
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

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