The Paddy Pork series
John S. Goodall
Browsing through the Easy Fiction section of the library, I stumbled across this series of small books for small children and was instantly added to what appears to be a faithful following of Goodall's illustrations. The delicate artwork and sheer charm of the little pig's adventures remind me strongly of the Little Bear series, but the darkness of some illustrations is all British. Goodall was an artist who used sympathetic flair and painstaking detail to create small books without text but filled with story. Here is the first one.
The Adventures Of Paddy Pork
1968, Harcourt, Brace & World
In the first of the Paddy Pork series, a little pig runs off to join the circus and falls afoul of a treacherous (and quite scary) fox. When at last he finds the circus folk, he discovers that home's best.
About the Author
John Strickland Goodall
1908-1996
Obituary in The Independent
Website
Other books
The Adventures of Paddy Pork
The Ballooning Adventures of Paddy Pork
Paddy's Evening Out
Paddy Pork's
Paddy's New Hat
Paddy Finds a Job: A Pop-Up Story
Paddy Pork--Odd Jobs
Paddy Under Water
Paddy to the Rescue
An Edwardian Summer
An Edwardian Christmas
An Edwardian Season
An Edwardian
Edwardian Entertainment
Victorians Abroad
Naughty
Naughty
Naughty
Shrewbettina's Birthday
Shrewbettina Goes To Work: A Pop Up Story
The Story Of An
The Story Of
The Story Of A Farm
Creepy Castle
Before The War 1908-1939
Lavina's Cottage
Great Days Of A Country House
The Surprise Picnic
The
Above And Below Stairs
Little Red Riding Hood
Jacko
John S. Goodall's Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty
Also
Many of the Fairacre and Thrush Green books published under the pseudonym Miss Read (Dora Saint) were illustrated by Goodall.
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