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The Victoria Art Gallery is a public art museum in Bath, Somerset, England.It was opened in 1900 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.It is a Grade II* listed building and houses over 1,500 objects of art including a collection of oil paintings from British artists dating from 1700 onwards.
Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. [1] The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books . It is an imprint of Penguin Random House , a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann .
Penguin Books revived the Ladybird Books brand, which had achieved iconic status publishing 646 classic pocket-sized mini-hardback children's books between the 1940s and the 1980s, in 2015 with a series of spoof books called Ladybird for Grown Ups which paired classic illustrations with new text written by TV comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris to great commercial success.
The Jane Austen Centre at 40 Gay Street in Bath, Somerset, England, is a permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane Austen's Bath experience, and the effect that visiting and living in the city had on her and her writing.
The King is a life-long champion of the environment and the new children’s book is a re-writing of his 2017 climate change book aimed at adults.
Joan Kiddell-Monroe is best known for her book illustrations, and was a prolific illustrator between the 1940s and 1960s. Her work often deals with animals and life overseas, particularly in Africa. She illustrated the Oxford Myths and Legends series for the OUP , which includes legends and folk-tales from China, Scandinavia , the West Indies ...
A self-portrait watercolour by Harry Wingfield in his early 30s. John Henry "Harry" Wingfield (4 December 1910 – 5 March 2002) was an English illustrator, best known for his drawings that illustrated the Ladybird Books Key Words Reading Scheme (also known as Peter and Jane) in the 1960s through to the 1980s, which sold over 80 million copies worldwide.
Yott, who lives in Bath, is combining those two interests to put together a compilation of personal stories from Vietnam War veterans in advance of the 50th anniversary of the 1975 end of the ...