Margery Jean Gill
(1925 - 2008)
Margery Jean Gill was a Scottish-born British illustrator of children’s books.
Bibliography
The Castle of Yew (1965)
Joseph is pulled into a yew bush shaped as a castle chess piece and shrinks to lilliputian size He joins the owner of the castle in the adventure of living as the smallest creatures in the garden.
Read online at archive.org.
English Fairy Tales (1968)
One of the first collections of English fairy tales. This edition also includes More English Fairy Tales. Read the first edition online at archive.org.
The Islanders (1950)
“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the English first edition with illustrations by Margery Gill.
Midway (1968)
Mark, the ordinary middle sibling, tries to make himself stand out.
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”