TODD, Justin (illus.).

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A collection of five books presented to Raymond Briggs. First editions, each inscribed with lively personal messages by the artist to Raymond Briggs. In Moonshadow, Todd asks Briggs to "Please destroy this book immediately and buy another one. The price alone should have warned you that this was obviously a bootleg copy saved by some twisted maniac from the incinerators".Justin Todd (b. 1932) met Briggs when they were both students at the Wimbledon School of Art in 1949, beginning a long friendship. He and Briggs later became tutors in illustration at Brighton College of Art in the 1960s. Todd began working on children's books in the 1980s. His illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are some of his "personal favourites" (Dreaming Aloud, p. 18), for which he was runner-up in the 1987 Francis Williams memorial prize for children's book illustrations. He based his drawings on Carroll's own photographs of Alice Liddell, and, according to The Scotsman, "He has perhaps captured the spirit of the story better than anyone else". The posthumous book label of Briggs (1934-2022), illustrator, graphic novelist, cartoonist, and author, is on the front pastedown of each book, and his black and gold address label in The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. The winner of numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award, Briggs noted that "the whole point of illustration is that it is li

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