Dorothy. M. Wheeler

[terry cantor]

Hallo everyone. I just found this site, and I'm hoping someone may have some knowledge as to the life and times of Dorothy M Wheeler, the great illustrator of the original editions of THE FARAWAY TREE trilogy.
I've looked on the web, and sadly, there's only a few paragraphs available on her. I'm an illustrator myself, mainly in comics and animation. I'm interested in finding out more about Dorothy... Any leads? Anyone who knew her? Are there any collections of her beautiful artwork to be had?

[swimini]

Does anyone have any information on the greatest of the Blyton illustrators, Dorothy M Wheeler? I - like many others - am an admirer of her work, especially on The Faraway Tree series.

There is very little about her on the net, other than the brief biographical paragraphs.

Thanks.

Merged with an older thread.

[Eddie Muir]

Have you seen the entry for Dorothy Wheeler on Heather's website? Link below:

http://www.heathersblytonpages.com/blyt ... ml#Wheeler" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It gives a little information.

[Tony Summerfield]

I would also like to know more about Dorothy Wheeler and hopefully someone will come forward one day who knows more about her. I clicked the link on Heather's page, which I think is probably where she got her limited information from and it is amazing how people can write things that just aren't true:-

'Her final work, illustrations for The Ring O’Bells Mystery by Enid Blyton, appeared in 1965.'

I can't imagine where they got that information from, it is total rubbish and it has been sitting on the internet for ten years!

[antoniosalandra]

That's Good you information is very useful for me.

[Judith Crabb]

I've mentioned elsewhere that I wish for all the Faraway Tree books as illustrated by Dorothy Wheeler to be published in full colour in a format similar to the De Luxe editions of Dean and Son, 1979 to 1983, the illustrators then being the Grahame Johnstones and Georgina Hargreaves.
Why the sudden renewed craving? I'd got out my set of 48 full-colour Nursery Rhyme posters illustrated by Dorothy Wheeler commissioned by Macmillan (1950s?). They are splendid. I was amazed that I recognised almost all the rhymes, even though if asked I think I would have remembered only ten or twelve.

[Jomo]

They sound marvellous Judith.
There is a little bit more information on Dorothy M Wheeler at the archived web site linked on the Wikipedia page. I wonder how difficult would it be to follow up some of these leads to find out more about Dorothy.