Pretty Things
Peter Campbell, 21 February 1980
Beauty and the Beast
by Rosemary Harris and Errol Le Cain.
Faber, 32 pp., £3.50, October 1980,0 571 11374 5 Show More
by Rosemary Harris and Errol Le Cain.
Faber, 32 pp., £3.50, October 1980,
Mazel and Shlimazel
by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Margot Zemach.
Cape, 42 pp., £3.95, November 1980,0 224 01758 6 Show More
by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Margot Zemach.
Cape, 42 pp., £3.95, November 1980,
La Corona
by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bayley.
Cape, 32 pp., £3.50, September 1980,0 224 01397 1 Show More
by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bayley.
Cape, 32 pp., £3.50, September 1980,
Comic and Curious Cats
by Angela Carter and Martin Leman.
Gollancz, 32 pp., £3.50, April 1980,0 575 02592 1 Show More
by Angela Carter and Martin Leman.
Gollancz, 32 pp., £3.50, April 1980,
The Wild Washerwomen
by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake.
Hamish Hamilton, 32 pp., £3.75, October 1980,0 241 89928 1 Show More
by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake.
Hamish Hamilton, 32 pp., £3.75, October 1980,
“... it is a handsome book and lovely to read. On the face of it, La Corona has even more going for it. Nicola Bayley’s drawings have the clarity of form and colour, the minutely stippled surfaces and precise gradations of tone, of very good botanical illustrations. The texture of a rug, or the light from a candle, become lessons in transcription. Russell ... ”
