Colin West
@mooseandmouse
Children’s Author/Illustrator
. @mrjamesmayhew ‘s daily posts of Book Illustrations are one of the highlights of Twitter. To celebrate its anniversary, here are three blasts from the past from my collection by Michael Foreman, Tomi Ungerer, Quentin Blake and David McKee. #BookIllustrationOfTheDayBirthday2
We have a carnival going on nearby, so it seemed a good opportunity to give away some books
So pleased that my poem found a home in this Hobbies edition from @TheToyPress And in such nice company of chums @JohnHRice @dreambeastpoems @rrouillard @Beccabeccabecs @robwaltonwriter @dragontripper @FionaHalliday1 @escherrington @Jacqsalpoet @MelSzymanik
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This is one of a fleet of shiny new cars owned by Lambeth Council. I've seen four of these parked together. It's notable how the council spending so much effort and public money making it difficult for people to get around by vehicle has plenty of money to buy staff cars.
“Is there anybody there?” said the poet, Knocking on the old Twitter door.
Some great drawings by Hungarian cartoonist Hegedus Istvan from 1960.
White Dove Review, 1959. Championed the work of Kerouac and Ginsberg etc and featured some rather lovely illustrations.
Flashback to 45 years ago. Still doing the same old thing 😊
Original Colin West artwork from 'Bless you, Hippo! said Elephant' with publisher’s proof. Colourful watercolour of Hippo’s big sneeze! £592.50. One in stock. childrensbookillustration.com/product/colin-… #childrensbookillustration #kidsbooks #artforsale
To my artist pals: may you have visions that inspire you to share To my author pals: may words tumble into your head like raisins into cake mix To my poetic pals: may many rhyming couplets come your way To my musical pals: may the strains of music outnumber the strains of life 😊
Yippee! Received some nice news today #childrenspoetry @TheToyPress
Too old to read, I’ll love you if You give me books that I can sniff.
Another bit of Betjeman #JohnBetjeman written over 60 years ago
Mervyn the Magician, read by myself to help you smile 😊 dirigibleballoon.org/writer/colinwe…
Very glad to be flying in @TheDirigible again. Hear me read my #willowpattern poem. Thanks as ever to @JonathanHumble dirigibleballoon.org/poem/My-Dream
Collecting books is one of my passions, ‘Specially if they’re Ogden Nash’uns