This Month - The Illustrator Margaret Tarrant - Contributed by Jo

Famous British illustrator Margaret (Winifred) Tarrant, was born in 1888 in Battersea. Her father, Percy Tarrant, encouraged her artwork being a landscape painter himself.

Tarrant's artwork showed promise early on when attending Clapham High School where she won awards for her drawings. After a period of time training to become an art teacher, Tarrant decided against going into teaching and instead became a full-time watercolour painter and illustrator.

Like her father, she produced paintings for publishers to use on postcards; some of her earliest were for publisher C.W. Faulkner in 1909. During the 1920s.....Read More.

Featured Book - A Tale of Tales by Tony Mitton- contributed by Lorna

An eye catching cover which makes a book stand out amongst a shelf of assorted books must be a good thing and I was certainly drawn to this book by its cover and, I'm pleased to say, I wasn't disappointed with the contents either. The Tale of Tales was written by Tony Mitton and illustrated in black and white by Peter Bailey. The book contains a collection of small stories within the main story, a concept I enjoyed.

The main story starts deep in the jungle with monkey overhearing some parrots talking about going to hear the Tale of Tales in Volcano Valley that afternoon. The parrots decided.....Read the full article.