The Nursery Collection ; Let's Join In ; Things I Like ; Olly and Me ; 'Olly and Me ABC', c.1997-1998, c.2001-2009
File
MS. 7164/35
Held at the Weston Library
The Nursery Collection, first published by Walker Books in 1997. Comprises:
- colour artwork for front and back cover panels (2 pieces)
- title page colour artwork
- single page colour artwork: 'bathwater's hot, seawater's cold'
- folder containing: roughs; sketches; papers relating to development of book; letter from publisher
- 2 pieces of colour artwork for front and back covers (possibly for Chinese edition)
- front cover colour rough
Let's Join In, first published by Walker Books in 1998. Comprises front and back cover colour artwork.
Things I Like, first published by Walker Books in 2001. Comprises:
- front cover colour artwork with annotated overlay sheet
- colour background for front cover with annotations and pencil sketch on overlay sheets
- back cover colour artwork
- colour artwork for title page
Olly and Me, first published by Walker Books in 2004. Comprises:
- front and back cover colour artwork
- double page colour artwork (14 pieces)
- single page colour artwork (2 pieces)
- title page colour artwork
- piece of promotional colour artwork and small piece of additional colour artwork (2 pieces)
- small black ink illustration
- draft manuscript and layout
- 2 rough dummies: photocopies with editior's notes in pencil and letter from publisher, 2002
- handwritten papers relating to ideas for possible television programme of 'Olly and Me', 2008
'Olly and Me ABC', unpublished? Comprises pencil rough dummy (16 pieces)
Dates
- Creation: c.1997-1998, c.2001-2009
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 7164/35
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk