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Racey Helps (1913–1971)

Autor(a) de Guinea Pig Podge

33+ Works 276 Membros 3 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

Includes the name: Helps Racey

Obras por Racey Helps

Guinea Pig Podge (1783) 47 exemplares
Just Wilberforce (1970) 36 exemplares
Kingcup Cottage (1962) 30 exemplares
Diggy Takes His Pick (1964) 22 exemplares
The Racey Helps Picture Book (1765) 14 exemplares
Two from a Tea-Pot (1966) 11 exemplares
Little Tommy Purr (1955) 10 exemplares
Two's Company (1958) 7 exemplares
The Clean Sweep (1967) 7 exemplares
The Blow-Away Balloon (1967) 3 exemplares
Little Mouse Crusoe (1986) 3 exemplares
BARNABY IN SEARCH OF A HOUSE. (1948) 3 exemplares
Pinny Takes a Bath (1967) 3 exemplares

Associated Works

Happy Animals' ABC [A Rand McNally Start-Right Elf Book] (1966) — Ilustrador — 32 exemplares
The Animals at the Seashore [A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book] (1962) — Ilustrador — 19 exemplares
The Animals' Boat Ride [A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book] (1956) — Ilustrador — 8 exemplares
Animal Alphabet (Timeless Treasures) (2004) — Ilustrador — 8 exemplares
The Marigold Line (1968) — Ilustrador — 4 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Helps, Racey
Nome legal
Helps, Angus Clifford Racey
Data de nascimento
1913
Data de falecimento
1971
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Local de falecimento
Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK
Locais de residência
Chelvey, Somerset, England, UK
Saltford, Somerset, England, UK
Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK
Educação
Bristol Cathedral School
West of England College of Art
Ocupações
illustrator
Relações
Orr, Irene (wife)
Helps, Anne (daughter)
Helps, Julian Racey (son)
Organizações
William Collins & Sons
The Medici Society

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Racey Helps married Irene Orr on 8th April 1936 and his daughter, Anne, was born in July 1937. He used to tell his young daughter a made-up story every night at bed time.
His first success as an author-artist came during World War II with stories written for her; when the war came, the little girl was packed off to a less noisy part of the country, but she still insisted on her story, and so Racey Helps wrote them down for her and drew pictures to illustrate them, and sent them to her.
Racey and Irene ran a hairdressing salon in Shepton Mallet, and on one occasion a publisher happend to drop in and picked up one of these handwritten and illustrated booklets and was enthralled by its content. Having established who was the author of this item, Racey was invited to London to discuss publication of future work with William Collins & Son, with whom he first became associated, then, subsequently, The Medici Society.
At the age of 57 Racey suddenly suffered a fatal heart attack and passed away at his Barnstaple home.
His books have been loved by many generations, and his characters are well known to children on both sides of the Atlantic, right up to the present day.

Membros

Críticas

they should reissue all Racey Helps' work, 8 Jan. 2011

This review is from: Little Tommy Purr (Pixie books series) (Hardcover)
A wonderful little kids' book featuring Racey Helps' lifelike cat illustrations. Tells the story of a tabby cat who plays truant to go fishing and ends up falling in and catching cold. No one but Helps could draw a cat sneezing!
 
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starbox | Sep 23, 2015 |
lovely tabby cat pictures, 4 Jan. 2011

This review is from: Two from a tea-pot (Hardcover)
Lovely hardback book for small children telling story of Tabitha Tabbitail, whose initial plans to catch the inhabitants of a teapot and make them into mouse pie are mellowed when they nurse her back to health. ('There are no mouse houses to let in Honeydell now...Indeed some of the mouse houses are becoming a little overcrowded' - lovely picture of a mouse-infested cuckoo-clock!)
Racey Helps illustrates pages of text (just a sentence or two) with alternate colour pictures and b/w line drawings.No one can draw a tabby cat like him!… (mais)
 
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starbox | Sep 23, 2015 |
Beautifully illustrated cover by Racey Helps, which is misleading, as internally there's poor grade paper with small, low quality illustrations (not by Racey Helps). Disappointing.
 
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flamencobird | Aug 16, 2011 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
33
Also by
5
Membros
276
Popularidade
#84,078
Avaliação
½ 4.3
Críticas
3
ISBN
18
Línguas
4
Marcado como favorito
2

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