A huge number of people – authors, agents, publishers, academics and experts in many individual areas – have contributed to making Storybook England possible. On behalf of VisitBritain I would like to thank them all personally for their time, generosity and boundless enthusiasm for our project. In particular I would like to express my thanks to the authors themselves, whose invaluable insights, comments and background knowledge have made our task so much easier: Richard Adams, David Almond, Christopher Awdry, Michael Bond, Tim Bowler, Susan Cooper, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Narinder Dhami, Chris D’Lacey, Berlie Doherty, Alan Garner, Jamila Gavin, Anthony Horowitz, Michael Morpurgo, Philippa Pearce, Philip Pullman, JK Rowling, Theresa Tomlinson, Ann Turnbull. A special thank you to our editorial board: Kate Agnew, Julia Eccleshare, Carey Fluker-Hunt, Daniel Hahn, Brian Sibley. Vineet Lal, Campaign Manager, Storybook England.
Conceived and produced by England Marketing at VisitBritain. England Marketing is the official national tourist board for England and markets England under the banner Enjoy England and through the website enjoyengland.com. Creative: Bell Design (belldesign.co.uk); Research and copy: Frank Barrett, Kay Greenway, Vineet Lal; Original illustrations: Mike Ritchie; Photography and photographic research: britainonview.com. Photography credits Britainonview.com: Daniel Bosworth (Royal Shakespeare Company); Martin Brent (The White Horse of Uffington); Joe Cornish (Whitby Abbey); Rod Edwards (Aldeburgh); Pawel Libera (NewcastleGateshead); McCormick-McAdam (Tower Bridge). NTPL: Andrew Butler (Belton House).
Author portrait credits:
David Almond: © Keith Pattison;
Enid Blyton: © Dorothy Wilding, by kind permission of Gillian Baverstock;
Roald Dahl: © Jan Baldwin;
Philippa Pearce: © Helen Craig;
Philip Pullman: © Wolf Marloh.
Book covers reproduced by kind permission of the following publishers (illustration credits, where applicable, are in brackets): © Bloomsbury: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Thomas Taylor); © Catnip Publishing: Children of Winter; © Egmont: Thomas the Tank Engine, Coram Boy (maps and ships courtesy of the Guildhall Library, Corporation of London), The Wind in the Willows (illustrations © Estate of EH Shepard, under the Berne Convention), Winnie-the-Pooh (colour cover illustrations © 1970 & 1973 EH Shepard and Egmont UK Ltd), Why the Whales Came (cover illustration © 2001 Claire Fletcher), The Hundred and One Dalmatians (cover and illustrations © David Roberts 2006); © Entertainment Rights Distribution Ltd/Express Newspapers 2006: Rupert Bear®; © Faber: The Children of Green Knowe (Imagestate); © Frederick Warne & Co., 1902; 2002: The Tale of Peter Rabbit; © HarperCollins Children’s Books: A Bear Called Paddington, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings, Mary Poppins; © Hodder Children’s Books: Kit’s Wilderness, Five on a Treasure Island (Eileen Soper); © Macmillan Children’s Books: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Machine Gunners; © Oxford University Press: Tom’s Midnight Garden (Christian Birmingham), The Eagle of the Ninth (Sam Hadley); © Puffin: Watership Down (Larry Rostant), Peter Pan (Keith Scarfe), The Secret Garden (Angelo Rinaldi), Over Sea, Under Stone (Blacksheep), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Quentin Blake), Moonfleet (Geoff Hunt), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Ingela Peterson), The Water Babies (George Smith), The Railway Children (Gino D'Achille), Black Beauty (Larry Learmouth), Treasure Island (Tulp & Parlevliet), Tarka the Otter (John Butler); © Random House: Lyra’s Oxford (illustrations © John Lawrence 2003); Swallows and Amazons; © Scholastic: Northern Lights; © Walker Books: Stormbreaker; © Wordsworth Editions: Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Children’s Short Stories, The Children of the New Forest.
Bibliography, sources and further reading
Original research for Storybook England included information received directly from authors, their families and agents; individual experts, specialists and academics; and a range of verifiable secondary sources including critical works, biographies, published articles and the internet. There are relatively few books on children’s literature locations in England. We came across four in all: Frank Barrett, Where was Wonderland? A Traveller’s Guide to the Settings of Classic Children’s Books (Hamlyn Children’s Books, London, 1997); Joan Bodger, How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children’s Books (McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, 1999); Jim Mackenzie, Journey to the Hidden Kingdoms (Powdene Publicity, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2004); Melanie Wentz, Once Upon a Time in Great Britain: A Travel Guide to the Sights and Settings of Your Favorite Children’s Stories (St Martin’s Press, New York, 2002). Also useful were two features in The Sunday Times (Vincent Crump, “My day out with Pongo and Bilbo”, 17 August 2003) and The Times (Vincent Crump and Stephen Bleach, “Go by the book”, 7 December 2003). Good general guides include: Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984); Julia Eccleshare, Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of children’s writers (National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, 2002); Daniel Hahn and Leonie Flynn, The Ultimate Book Guide (A&C Black, London, 2004); Victor Watson, The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001). A full bibliography is available online at enjoyengland.com/storybook.
Important note
The information contained in this publication has been published in good faith on the basis of information submitted to VisitBritain and every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy. However, you are strongly advised to double-check prices, opening times, dates etc before making final arrangements. All liability for loss, disappointment, negligence or damage caused by reliance on information contained in this publication is hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. The opinions expressed by contributors to this publication are not necessarily those of VisitBritain or Bell Design. Printed in England Published by VisitBritain, Thames Tower, Blacks Road, London W6 9EL in partnership with England’s tourism industry. enjoyengland.com © British Tourist Authority (trading as VisitBritain), 4 September 2006 ISBN: 978-0-7095-8385-1 Product code: CHILD-BRO
