Male : Book illustrator. Came to England 1956. Worked extensively for OUP. Married to Glenys Ambrus, also a book illustrator

Nationality : Hungarian Place of Birth : Budapest

Date of Birth : 1935

Pseudonyms : Victor Ambrus

Education : Hungarian Academy of Fine Art, Farnham Sch of Art & Royal College of Art

ALMEDINGEN, E M : Little Katia (1966 OUP)
Young Mark (1967) (1969 Farrar, NY)
AMBRUS, Victor : The Three Poor Tailors (1965 All OUP
Brave Soldier Janosh (1967) (1967 Harcourt Brace)
Hot Water for Boris (1967)
Seven Skinny Goats (1969) (1970 Harcourt Brace)
The Sultan's Bath (1971)
Country Wedding (1975)
Horses in Battle (1975)
Mishka (1975)
Under the Double Edge (1979)
The Valiant Little Tailor (1980)
Dracula (1980)
Dracula's Bedtime Storybook (1981)
Blackbeard (1982)
Grandma, Felix and Mustapha Biscuit (1982 Morrow) (1984)
Son of Dracula (1986)
BALDERSON, Margaret : When Jays Fly to Barbmo (1969)
R M BALLANTYNE : The Dog Crusoe (1966 Dent Dutton)
Lillian BECKWITH : The Spuddy (1974)
BLISHEN, Edward (Ed) : Miscellany One (1964 OUP)
BRIMSTEAD, Hesba F : A Sapphire for September (1967)
BURTON, Hester : Castors Away ! (1962 OUP)
A Time of Trial (1963 OUP)
A seaman at the Time of Trafalgar (1963)
No Beat of Drum (1966 OUP)
In Spite of all Terror (1968)
Thomas (1969)
The Rebel (1971)
Riders of the Storm (1972)
Kate Rider (1974)
CARTER, Peter : Madatan (1974)
CATHERALL, Arthur : Prisoners in the Snow (1967)
Kidnapped by Accident (1968)
Red Sea rescue (1969)
Geoffrey CHAUCER : The Canterbury Tales (1984 OUP)
CHAUNCY, Nan : High and Haunted Island (1964)
Marthinna's People (1967)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Son (1969)
CHIPPERFIELD, Joseph : Hunter of Harter Fell (1977)
Carlo COLLODI : Pinocchio (1988 OUP)
CORDELL, Alexander : The Traitor Within (1971 Brockhampton)
DAWLISH, Peter : The Royal Navy (1963 OUP)
The Merchant Navy (1966 OUP)
DEFOE, Daniel : Robinson Crusoe (1968 Nonesuch Press)
M DEJONG : The Cat that Walked a Week (1965 Lutterworth)
FARJEON, Eleanor/MAYNE, William C : The Hamish Hamilton Book of Kings
(1964 Hamish Hamilton)
The Hamish Hamilton Book of Queens (1965)
FIDLER, Kathleen : Haki the Shetland Pony (1968)
FINLAY, Winifred : Folk Tales from the North (1968)
Folk Tales from Moor and Mountain (1969)
Cap O'Rushes (1974)
FITZGERALD, Edward : The British Army (1964 OUP)
FYSON, J G : The Three Brothers of Ur (1964)
The Journey of the Eldest Son (1965 Oxford UP) (1967 Coward-McCann)
GOUGH, Mary : A Turkish Village (1965)
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn : The Hamish Hamilton Book of Other Worlds (1976 HH)
GRICE, Frederick : The Courage of Andy Robson (1969)
GRIFFITHS, Helen : The Wild Heart (1963)
The Greyhound (1964)
The Wild Horse of Santander (1966)
Leon (1967)
Stallion of the Sands (1968 Hutchinson)
Russian Blue (1973)
Just a Dog (1974)
Witch Fear (1975)
Pablo (1977)
R GUILLOT : Master of the Elephants (1961 OUP)
C HAYWOOD : A Christmas Fantasy (1972 Morrow, NY) (1973 Brockhampton)
- with Glenys Ambrus
A Valentine Fantasy (1976 Morrow, NY) - with Glenys Ambrus
Santa Claus Forever ! (1983 Morrow) (1984 OUP) - with Glenys Ambrus
James HERRIOTT : Dog Stories (1986 Michael Joseph)
J JACOBS : Celtic Fairy Tales (1970 Bodley Head)
A C JENKINS : White Horses and Black Bulls (1960 Blackie)
Rudyard KIPLING : How the Frist Letter was Written (1985 Macmillan)
KNIGHT, Frank : The Stories of the Sea (1973)
True Stories of Exploration (1973)
True Stories of Spying (1975 Benn)
R H LLOYD : The Legend of the Fourth Wise Man (1984 Mowbray)
MANNING, Rosemary : Arripay (1963)
MANNING-SANDERS, Ruth : The Glass Man and the Golden Bird (1968 OUP)
The Red King & the Witch : Gipsy Folk and Fairy Tales (1964 OUP)
MAYNE, William : The Changeling (1961 OUP)
(Ed) Hamish Hamilton Book of Queens (1965 HH) - with Eleanor Farjeon
Geraldine McCAUGHREAN : The Canterbury Tales Retold (1984 OUP)
El Cid (1989 Oxford UP)
MILES, Bernard : Shakespeare's Tales (1976)
MITCHELL, Elyne : Light Horse to Damascus (1971)
Silver Brumby Whirlwind (1973 Hutchinson)
The Colt at Taparoo (1976)
Son of the Whirlwind (1977)
The Colt from Snowy River (1980)
MOORHEAD, Diana : The Green and the White (1974)
J OLIVER : Watch for the Morning (1964 Macmillan)
PARKER, Richard : Private Beach (1964)
PEYTON, K M : Windfall (1962 OUP)
Brownsea Silver (1964 Collins)
The Maplin Bird (1964 OUP)
The Plan for Birdsmarsh (1965)
Thunder in the Sky (1966)
Flambards (1967 OUP)
The Edge of the Cloud (1969 OUP)
Flambards in Summer (1969 OUP)
The Right-Hand Man (1977)
PICARD, Barbara Leonie : One is One (1965)
The Young Pretenders (1966)
Twice Seven Tales (1968)
Tales of Ancient Persia (1972)
F M PILKINGTON : The Three Sorrowful Tales of Erin (1965 Bodley Head)
POLLAND, Madeleine : Stranger in the Hills (1969)
PORTER, Sheena : Hills and Hollows (1962)
Jacob's Lader (1963)
Deerfold (1966)
J REEVES : How the Moon Began (1971 Abelard)
Frank RICHARDS : Billy Bunter Comes for Christmas (1982 Quiller)
Billy Bunter Does His Best (1982 Quiller)
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars (1982 Quiller)
RIORDAN, James : The Legend of King Arthur (1982 Hamlyn)
Arabian Nights (1982)
SANDERS, Ruth M :Jonnikin and the Flying Basket (1969)
R SELBIE : The Anatomy of Costume (1982 Bell)
Barbara SLEIGH : North of Nowhere (1964 Collins)
West of Widdershins (1971 Collins)
SERRAILLIER, Ian : The Challenge of the Green Knight (1966 OUP)
Robin in the Greenwood (1967 OUP)
Robin and His Merry Men (1969 OUP)
Marko's Wedding (1972)
STEFANSSON, Thorstein : The Golden Future (1974 OUP £1.80)
SUTCLIFF, Rosemary : The Hound of Ulster (1963 Bodley Head)
The Chief's Daughter (1967 Hamish Hamilton)
The Circlet of Oak Leaves (1968)
The Truce of the Games (1971 Hamish Hamilton)
Tristan and Iseult (1971 Bodley Head)
The Changeling (1974 OUP)
R SWINDELLS : The Very Special Baby (1977 Hodder & Stoughton)
TREADGOLD, Mary : The Heron Ride (1962 Cape)
Return to the Heron (1963)
UNSTEAD, R J : The Story of Britain (1969 Black)
David Harry WALKER : Big Ben (1970 Houghton Mifflin)
WEBSTER, Peter : Pasang the Sherpa (1964)
WELCH, Ronald : Ferdinand Magellan (1955)
The Galleon (1971)
Tank Commander (1972)
Ensign Carey (1976 OUP)
R B WILSON : Pineapple Palace (1964 Hart-Davis)
M A WOOD : Master Deor's Apprentice (1979 Andersen)

READING
Douglas Martin : The Telling Line - Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators
(1989 Julie MacRae)