It's Too Frightening for Me! , c.1977, c.1980-1986, c.2000

File

MS. 7164/41

Held at the Weston Library

First published by Hodder Children's Books, 1977. Comprises:

front and back cover colour artwork with text on overlay sheet
black ink line illustrations (45 pieces)
front and back cover or jacket colour artwork (large piece, possibly not published)
final rough dummy, 48 page booklet of pencil sketches, pencil and typed text with painted colour cover
draft manuscripts, sketches and roughs
additional black ink line illustrations for extended edition (30 pieces), Puffin 1980
pitch for television adaptation: pencil sketches and typed text, n.d.[1980s?]
front cover colour artwork and additional colour illustration for French edition ( Quelle Frousse!, Gallimard 1983)
front and back cover colour artwork with text and layout on overlay sheet (Puffin 1986?)
original colour artwork, probably new illustrations for The Shirley Hughes Collection, The Bodley Head 2000 (3 pieces)

Dates

1 box

MS. 7164/41

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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