This week, I'm featuring illustrations from Noel Streatfeild's Thursday's Child, by Peggy Fortnum.
I especially like Fortnum's figure-drawings, which, no matter how sketchy, are always bursting with character.
Thursday's Child is about the adventures of Margaret Thursday, an orphan who was left on the church steps on a Thursday, with "three of everything, all the very best quality.".
The following illustrations are from the1979 Lions edition, published by Fontana. (Click on the thumbnails for bigger versions of the pictures):
Chapter 2, pg 22: Packing Up: "You must be the three Beresford children."
Chapter 6, pg 42: School: "Oh, Margaret, you are a fibber."
Chapter 11, pg 67: The Picnic: "Matron said we could go for a picnic with you."
Chapter 27, pg 159: Rain.
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