The Children's Hour Annual 1937
Children's Hour Annual 1937 |
What's this got to do with Sheppard? Well, I'm ashamed to say, even when Tim sent me the image, I didn't realise it was Raymond Sheppard's work for the third Children's Hour Annual! Tim had to point out to me the signature!
So for your delectation and delight (now I sound like Leonard Sachs!) I've scanned the whole cover
Children's Hour Annual 1937 whole cover |
Tim has given me the opportunity to follow up on my promise from my previous Sheppard article to write about his work in this 1937 Annual in which he illustrated 3 stories plus that cover!
"Reminiscences" by Commander Stephen King-Hall has two Sheppard illustrations and the intro is worth recording here for fellow researchers
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.11 |
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.13 He tried but stuck half-way, much to the joy of the crowd |
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.16 It discovered after about the seventh or eighth fence it could generally get round the course without the rider on its back |
The Policeman stuck in a hole in the ground has some nicely observed figure work. In the second illo, Sheppard has definitely got to grips with his animal drawings too!
The second story is "Adam and the bear cub" by H. Mortimer Batten. Page 60 has a short biography
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.60 |
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.65 He had just time to see the bear clutch her cub by the neck |
A couple of years later Sheppard found himself drawing bears for a children's story "The bear and the baby" by C. G. D. Roberts for Odhams' "Golden Gift Book" in 1939
The third story he illustrates is "Jimmy rides the range" by Escott North
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.145 |
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.148 “Jimmy, this is Guy Weadick, one of my friends” |
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.150 Suddenly the pony exploded into action |
Children's Hour Annual 1937 p.154 In thirty seconds the man was thrown |
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