Val Biro, Esq's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Val Bálint Stephen
- Sex
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Male
- Date of Birth
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6/10/1921 Hungary
- Surname
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BIRO
- Style
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Val Biro, Esq
- Recreations
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vintage car motoring
Val Biro, Esq's Professional Career
- Career
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memb NFS London 1942-45, studio mangr Sylvan Press London 1944-46, prodn mangr C & J Temple London 1946-48, art dir John Lehmann Ltd London 1948-53, freelance author and illustrator 1953-; designer of 4000 book jackets 1945-95; contrib weekly illustrations Radio Times 1951-72; cncllr Chesham UDC 1966-70, memb/chm governing bodies Amersham Coll of Art & Design 1974-84, vice-chm Bosham Assoc 1989-91; primary sch visitor as artist and storyteller 1970-2011; named among Top Hundred Authors in list from PLR 1990; memb Soc of Authors
Val Biro, Esq's Publications
- Books and Publications
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author and illustrator of numerous children's books incl: series of 36 Gumdrop books (about his vintage car) 1965-2001, Hungarian Folktales (1981), The Magic Doctor (1982), The Hobyahs (1985), Tobias and the Dragon (1989), Look-and-Find ABC (1990), Miranda's Umbrella (1990), Rub-a-Dub-Dub Nursery Ryhmes (1991), Three Billy Goats Gruff (1993), Jasper's Jungle Journey (1995), Lazy Jack (1995), Bears Can't Fly (1996), Hansel and Gretel (1996), Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1998), Little Red Riding Hood (1999), The Joking Wolf (2001), Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (2005), Treasury of Aesop's Fables (2007), Grimm's Fairy Tales (2008), Charles Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose (2010), Tales from The Arabian Nights (2013); illustrator of over 400 books incl: Worlds Without End (Denys Val Baker, 1945), The Prisoner of Zenda (Anthony Hope, 1961), Wizard of Oz books (L Frank Baum, 1965-67), One Man's Happiness (Lord Tweedsmuir, 1968), The Good Food Guide (1971), The Robert Carrier Cookery Course (1974), The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1983), The King's Jokes (Margaret Mahy, 1987), When I Was Your Age (Ken Adams, 1991), What's Up The Coconut Tree? (A H Benjamin, 1991), The Show-off Mouse (A H Benjamin, 1993), My Oxford Picture Word Book (OUP, 1994), The Dinosaur's Egg (Christina Butler, 1994), The Flying Boot Reading Scheme (Prof Ted Wragg, 1994/95), The Landleagers (Trollope, 1995), The Father Brown Stories (2 Vols, Chesterton, 1996), The Dinosaur's Dinner (Christina Butler, 1997), Carole's Camel (Michael Hardcastle, 1997), Jennings Sounds the Alarm (Anthony Buckeridge, 1999), Jennings Breaks the Record (Anthony Buckeridge, 2000), Jennings Joins the Search Party (Anthony Buckeridge, 2001), Introducing Rex Milligan (Anthony Buckeridge, 2002), Jamaica Primary Curriculum (2004-06); Exhibitions Pallant House Chichester 2000, Bath Literature Festival 2003, Ashmolean Museum Oxford 2003, Chris Beetles London 2004, Petworth House Sussex 2004, Uppark House Sussex 2005, Petersfield Museum 2009
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