KENT, Lorna

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Seasonal Norm; [together with] -- Norman Thorman & the Mysterious Mutant Marrows; [and] -- Norman Thorman and the Towering Tarantula of Torremolinos. First editions, each inscribed by the author to Raymond Briggs, "To Raymond, love from Lorna". Briggs was Kent's tutor at the Brighton School of Art, where he taught from 1961 to 1986. Kent's first book, No, no, Charlie Rascal! was published in 1988. The two illustrators maintained a close relationship.The posthumous book label of Briggs (1934-2022), illustrator, graphic novelist, cartoonist, and author, is on the front pastedown of each book. 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 literary. If it is not, it remains a drawing only... Something must be 'going on' in the illustration" (Horne, p. 124). He is chiefly remembered for Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1978), When the Wind Blows (1982), and the perennial classic The Snowman (1978).

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