Boy's World published by Blackie in 1950 with a sub-title: A Collective Work by Thirty Writers was a successor to The Boy's Companion (more on that another day). It measures 7¾ in height and is 2 inches in thickness with 576 pages.
"Catching wild animals live" written by Gladys Davidson (F.Z.S.) runs from pages 294-310. She appears to have been born in Royal Leamington Spa, 1874 and died in 1962 in Torquay, aged 88 and produced c. 90 books on animals, nature and opera!
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| Boy's World p.297 Elephants being driven into the keddah |
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| Boy's World p.307 Tapir |
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| Boy's World p.309 Lien Ho, the giant panda eating bamboo shoots |
"Getting to know the birds" by G. D. Fisher (The Hut-Man of the BBC) writes from page 311 to 326. Gilbert Dempster Fisher (1906–1985) was a Scottish broadcaster, writer and naturalist who achieved prominence on BBC Scottish Radio as a naturalist under the persona of 'the Hut Man' as he settled down in a hut in the moors north of the village of Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire. He published The Hut Man's Book in 1938, and it was re-published as a Puffin Story Book in 1950 and he appeared on BBC Children's TV too - as did Sheppard himself.
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| Boy's World p.312 The Thrush family: Song-Thrush, Redwing, Fieldfare, Missel-Thrush |
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| Boy's World p.319 The bird will think it sees two people walking away |
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| Boy's World p.321 Some birds with long legs or long bills: Snipe, Redshank, Curlew, Heron |
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| Boy's World p.320 Black and white birds: Oyster-catcher, Wagtail and lapwing |
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| Boy's World p.322 The crow family: Raven, Rook, Jackdaw, and Crow |
Some lovely bird illustrations by the master of bird drawing.
GIRL'S WORLD
Now interestingly I also own Girl's World with a slightly different sub-title: A Collective Work by More Than Thirty Writers. But both the articles Sheppard illustrated appear here with one difference!
Girl's World p.346 - Elephants being driven into the keddah
Girl's World p.356 - Tapir
Girl's World p.358 - Lien Ho, the giant panda eating bamboo shoots
Girl's World p.361 - The Thrush family: Song-Thrush, Redwing, Fieldfare, Missel-Thrush
Girl's World p.368 -The bird will think it sees two people walking away
Girl's World p.369 - Black and white birds: Oyster-catcher, Wagtail and lapwing
Girl's World p.370 - Some birds with long legs or long bills: Snipe, Redshank, Curlew, Heron
Girl's World p.371 - The crow family: Raven, Rook, Jackdaw, and Crow
There's no need to reproduce the illustrations - except for that one mentioned.
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| Girl's World p.368 The bird will think it sees two people walking away |
I'm sure this is an amended illustration where Sheppard will have been asked to submit two images for use in both books! Did he get paid twice? I hope so
