http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_C._Freeman" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Barbara Constance Freeman (29 November 1906 – 1999) was an English writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults.
Biography
Barbara Constance Freeman was born on 29 November 1906 in Ealing, near London. She attended the Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey and later studied at the Kingston School of Art.[1]
She illustrated many books by other writers, including The Treasure Hunters by Enid Blyton, and many collections of fairy tales, both traditional tales by Grimm and Andersen and modern stories. Some of her earliest illustrations are found in The Cuckoo Book (1942), a book of fairy tales by Edith Mary Bell. She also contributed to comics, including Playhour, and to annuals, such as, Blackie's Children's Annual 1934.[2]
By the 1960s she had begun writing and illustrating her own books for children and young adults. Some have a touch of fantasy: in Two-Thumb Thomas the eponymous hero is raised by school cats; in Broom-Adelaide, a fox rides a flying broomstick. Some, including Lucinda and The Name on the Glass, are set in the past, while in others, such as A Book by Georgina and The Other Face, the lives of the main characters are interwoven with history.
Her books have not remained in print, but some of her illustrations are still available as posters and art prints.
I have the version of The Treasure Hunters that she illustrated:
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Barbara signs her name in every single illustration that appears in The Treasure Hunters.
She illustrates some stories in The Fourth Holiday Book too.
These two images show a slight similarity in how she portrayed mature ladies...
The Treasure Hunters 1950..
The Fourth Holiday Book 1949
The 1940 Treasure map...
The 1950 map...