1 Little Tim and the brave sea captain

Story Written by Edward Ardizzone
Read by David Davis

Delysé DEL 127 
1964
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2 Tim to the rescue

Story Written by Edward Ardizzone
Read by David Davis

Delysé DEL 128 
1964
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3 Tim and Charlotte

Story Written by Edward Ardizzone
Read by David Davis

Delysé DEL 129 
1964
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4 Tim in danger

Story Written by Edward Ardizzone
Read by David Davis

Delysé DEL 130 
1964
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5 Tim all alone

Story Written by Edward Ardizzone
Read by David Davis

Delysé DEL 131 
1964
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INFO Edward Ardizzone
Edward Ardizzone (1900 - 1979), artist and illustrator, was born in Haiphong, French Indo-China (now Vietnam) in 1900. Brought to England in 1905, he spent his childhood in East Anglia and exhibited an early interest in drawing and painting. After leaving school in 1918, Ardizzone took up work as a clerk, first in Warminster, then in London. However, he found office work mundane and was forever doodling at his desk. From 1920 to 1926, he attended evening classes given by Bernard Meninsky three times a week at the Westminster School of Art. When in 1926 his father shared out a bonus among his children, Ardizzone took advantage of his windfall of GBP500 and made the decision to abandon his job to concentrate upon a career as a professional artist.

Fortunately for Ardizzone, the gamble paid off. His earliest work was inspired by the area in which he lived, Maida Vale, and in 1930 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Bloomsbury Gallery. It was there that he made an important contact - Maurice Gorham, then art editor of the Radio Times, who commissioned him to draw regularly for the paper. In 1940, Ardizzone was appointed Official War Artist and for some years was never far behind battle, producing drawings and paintings of Britain, France, North Africa, Italy, Normandy and Germany.

After the War, Ardizzone's subject matter diversified and he became a particularly active book illustrator, working on Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie (1946), and Anthony Trollope's The Warden (1952) and Barchester Towers (1953). The modern author with whom he is most associated is Eleanor Farjeon and his drawings for her The Little Bookworm (1955) were particularly well received. Ardizzone also wrote his own, very successful, illustrated childrenŐs tales which began with Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936) and ended with The Last Voyage (1972). His Tim All Alone (1956) was awarded the British Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal for 'the most distinguished work in the illustration of children's books'. In 1972, Ardizzone left Maida Vale for Kent, where he died 1979, five years after the Victoria and Albert had staged a major retrospective exhibition of his work.

Source: www.english-heritage.org.uk