The Benefits of Champagne: Ronald Searle at 90

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Ronald Searle is ninety today: congratulations! In celebration, you can watch a Channel 4 interview, visit an exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, gaze at the window of the Heywood Hill bookshop and of course read the books he illustrated.





What a lot we owe him.

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Molesworth

[(Anonymous)]

I have only read Down with Skool (this was read to us as a treat on a Friday afternoon in my small private primary school - it certainly wouldn't feature on any National Curriculum today! - and I have always loved it. I even end up saying "chiz, chiz, chiz" to some correspondents who also adore Molesworth.
Margaret P
PS Didn't Kaye Webb edit Young Elizabethan magazine? I loved that, too, and Molesworth was also in that.

Re: Molesworth

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I've read the lot and have many favourite passages.
Molesworth was in Elizabethan, before my time. Kaye Webb was editor of Puffin books, not the magazine.