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Pauline Baynes

Author, Illustrator, Editor, Compiler

(1922 - 2008)

Pauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. She was born in Hove, Sussex.

A website devoted to her art is at: http://paulinebaynes.com/?



Bibliography

Frog and Water Shrew (1981)

When their pond dries up, the water shrew and her children set off to follow the frog to the stream, but does he know the way?

Author(s): Helen Piers
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

From the Fury of the Northmen (1957)

A series of short stories based on events in English history.

Author(s): Rhoda Power
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Further Adventures of Gobbolino and the Little Wooden Horse (1984)

Gobbolino, the former witch’s cat and the little wooden horse team up to rescue Gobbolino’s sister from the witch.

Author(s): Ursula Moray Williams
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

A Gift from the Heart: Folk Tales from Bulgaria (1966)

A collection of folk and fairy tales from Bulgaria.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Radost Pridham
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

A Gift from the Heart: Folk Tales from Bulgaria (1966)

A collection of folk and fairy tales from Bulgaria.

Author(s): Radost Pridham
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Good King Wenceslas (1983)

The story of the King of Bohemia who is memorialized in the famous carol.

Author(s): Pauline Baynes
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Graeme and the Dragon (1970)

Graeme finds a baby dragon and nothing is ordinary again.

Author(s): Naomi Mitchison
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Grasshopper and Butterfly (1975)

Grasshopper plays against type and helps butterfly find a safe place to overwinter.

Author(s): Helen Piers
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Great People Through the Ages (1954)

A collection of short biographies of people every child should know.

Gulliver’s Travels (1964)

Captain Lemuel Gulliver travels to various strange lands from the Lilliputian to the Brobdingnagnian.

Author(s): Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Harold: The Story of a Friendship (1973)

In this time-slip adventure, two boys, one from the eighteenth century, and the other from the twentieth, become friends.

Author(s): John Symonds
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Hassan of Basorah (1958)

When the cruel magician strands Hassan on the mountain top he fears he is lost. The seven little sisters take him in and he meets the swan maiden, but his adventures are just beginning.

Author(s): Monica Backway
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Horse and His Boy (1954)

Bree, a talking horse from Narnia, joins up with Shasta, a young slave in Calormen, to escape to Narnia.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Horse and His Boy (2007)

Shasta, a young slave in Calormen steals (or is stolen by) Bree a Narnian horse and sets out for Narnia and the north. Along the way he joins up with Aravis and her Narnian mount Hwin. Together they make for Archenland.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes
David Wiesner

How Dog Began (1985)

The author speculates on how the first wolf was tamed and became a dog.

Author(s): Pauline Baynes
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

How Excellent is Thy Name (2007)

The eighth psalm - ‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.’

Author(s): The Bible
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

How the Whale Got His Throat (1983)

In this Just So Story, Rudyard Kipling tells the story of how the whale got his throat.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

I Believe: The Nicene Creed (2003)

The Symbol of the Christian faith.

Author(s): Council of Nicaea
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Il Cacciatore Di Draghi (2005)

This is the Italian translation of “Farmer Giles of Ham.”

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Il Fabbro Di Wootton Major (2005)

This is the Italian translation of Smith of Wootton Major.

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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