Male : Artist, Writer and Illustrator. Came to Britain in 1939 to study art. He worked for the Sylvan Press, C & J Temple and John Lehmann. Designed dustwrappers

Nationality : Hungarian Place of Birth : Budapest

Date of Birth : 1921

Education : Jaschnick Sch of Art, Budapest & Central Sch of Art

Peter ALLEN : Play the Best Courses (1973)
ANDERSEN, Hans : Tales (1985-9 Ginn & Wright) - 18 vols
P ANDRIEU : Fine Bouche - A History of the Restaurant in France (1956 Cassell)
Stephen ANDREWS : Cubs with a Difference (1973)
Cubs Away (1974)
Cubs on Saturday (1976)
Enid BAGNOLD : Serena Blandish (1951 Pan)
Arnold BAINES : Discovering Chesham (1968)
Denys Val BAKER : Worlds Without End (1945 Sylvan Press)
Kate BARCLAY : The Story of a Carrot (1944 Sylvan Press)
L Frank BAUM : The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1965 Dent)
The Marvellous Land of Oz (1967)
Leila BERG : Fire Engine By Mistake (1955 Brockhampton)
Andy's Pit Pony (1958 Brockhampton)
The Doctor (1972)
Donald BISSET : Kangaroo Tennis (1968)
Benjie and the Circus Dog (1969)
Enid BLYTON : Brer Rabbit Books (1975-6 Hodder & Stoughton)
Edward BOHAN : The Writ of Green Wax (1970)
Dawn BOWKER : The Dinghy Stories (1973)
Norman J BULL : 100 Bible Stories (1980)
New Testament Stories (1981)
John BUNYAN : The Pilgrim's Progress (1951)
J CORNEILLE : Journal of My Service in India (1966 Folio Society)
Fanny CRADDOCK : The Sherlock Holmes Cook Book (1976 W H Allen)
Thurlow CRAIG : The Up-Country Year Book (1964 Deutsch)
Rupert CROFT-COOKE : The Ghost of June (1968 W H Allen)
F DALE : Bon Voyage (1950 Lehmann)
Norman DALE : The Story of Joseph and Pharoah (1950 Barrie)
The Casket and the Sword (1956 Barrie)
David Scott DANIELL : Hideaway Johnny (1959 Brockhampton)
Peter DAWLISH : The Seas of Britain (1963)
Joan DRAKE : Sally the Seal (1968)
James and Sally Again (1970)
Mr Bubbus and the Railway Smugglers (1976)
Joan GOLDMAN : Selected at Six (1963 Hodder & Stoughton)
Kenneth GRAHAME : Tales from The Wind in the Willows (1983 Purnell)
Elizabeth GOUDGE : David and the Shepherd Boy (1954)
E W HILDICK : The Nose Knows (1974 Brockhampton)
Dolls in Danger (1974 Brockhampton)
Case of the Condemned Cat (1975)
The Menaced Midget (1975)
The Case of the Nervous Newsboy (1976)
A Cat Called Amnesia (1976 Deutsch)
The Case of the Invisible Dog (1977)
Margaret HOLDEN : Kettleby's Zoo (1957)
Anthony HOPE : The Prisoner of Zenda (1961 Folio Society)
Ted HUMPHRIS : Garden Glory (1969 Collins)
Nicholas HUSK : Zoo for the Zanies (1952 James Barrie)
Cyril JACKSON : No Bombs at All (1944 Sylvan Press)
Airman's Song Book (1945)
KING, Clive : The Devil's Cut (1978 Hodder & Stoughton)
Eric LEYLAND : To Arms for the Queen (1956 Brockhampton)
Jane MACMICHAEL : Tales of the Circus (1972)
Mary MOORE : Crusading Holiday (1946)
Geoffrey MORGAN : Soldier Bear (1970)
A MORRISON : The Hole in the Wall (1978 Folio Society)
Cholmondeley NELSON : Jungle Town Tales (c1943 Sylvan Press)
More Jungle Town Tales (1944 Sylvan Press)
Beverley NICHOLS : Down the Kitchen Sink (1974)
N NICHOLSON : Provincial Pleasures (1959 Hale)
Richard PARKER : Escape from the Zoo (1945 Sylvan Press)
A Camel from the Desert (1947)
The Penguin Goes Home (1951)
J B H PEEL : Country Talk (1972 Hale)
More Country Talk (1973)
New Country Talk (1975)
Jean PLAIDY : Victoria in the Wings (1972)
Michael POLLARD : The Reporter (1973)
Helen S RICE : Lovingly (1971)
Prayerfully (1972)
Thankfully (1975)
Daphne ROOKE : The Australian Twins (1954)
The South African Twins (1953 Cape)
Kenneth RUDGE : Man Makes Towns (1963)
J M SCOTT : The Man Who Made Wine (1954 Hodder & Stoughton)
Eric SHIPTON : That Untravelled World (1969)
Donald SUTHERLAND : Hear and Speak (1971)
Paul TABORI : Private Gallery (1944 Sylvan Press)
Dora THATCHER : Tommy the Tugboat series (from 1956 Brockhampton)
Henry the Helicopter Series (from 1956)
H E TODD : The Sick Cow (1974)
George the Fire Engine (1976 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Roundabout Horse (1979)
King of Beasts (1980)
The Very Very Long Dog (1980)
The Crawly Crawly Caterpillar (1980)
The Big Sneeze (1981 Hodder & Stoughton)
Jungle Silver (1981 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Tiny Tiny Tadpole (1982)
The Scruffy Scruffy Dog (1983 H & S)
Lord TWEEDSMUIR : One Man's Happiness (1969)
C H WARD-JACKSON : No Bombs at All - Some Short stories of the RAF (1944 Sylvan Press)
Keith WATERHOUSE & Willis HALL : Worzel Gummidge (1981)
The St Michael Book of Worzel Gummidge Stories
Rosemary WEIR : What a Lark (1961)
Soap Box Derby (1962)
Fred WHITSEY : The Sunday Telegraph Gardening Book (1966)
William WISE : The Terrible Trumpet (1969 Hamish Hamilton)

Val BIRO
1943-1970
Bumpy's Holiday (1943 Sylvan Press)
All Brockhampton Press below
Gumdrop - the Adventures of a Vintage Car (1966)
G and the Farmer's Friend (1967)
G on the Rally (1968)
G on the Move (1969) (1969 Follett US)

1971-1980
G Goes to London (1971)
The Honest Thief : A Hungarian Folk Tale (1972)
G Finds a Friend (1973)
Buster is Lost (1974 Macmillan)
A Dog and His Bone (1975 Macmillan)
G in Double Trouble (1975)
G and the Steamroller (1976)
G Posts a Letter (1976 Knight Books)
G on the Brighton Run (1976 All 'Gumdrop" Books by Hodder & Stoughton from here on)
G Has a Birthday (1977)
The Gumdrop Annual (1979)
G Gets his Wings (1979)
G Finds a Ghost (1980)
Humgarian Folk Tales (1980 OUP)

1981-1983
G and the Secret Witches (1981)
G at Sea (1982)
G Makes a Start (1982)
The Magic Doctor (1982 OUP)
Little Gumdrop Books (8 titles 1982-3)
Fables from Aesop (1983-88 Ginn & Wright) - 18 vols
G at the Zoo (1983)
G Gets a Lift (1983)
G Goes to School (1983)
G in a Hurry (1983)
The Long Gumdrop (1983)

1984-1985
G's Magic Journey (1984)
G Goes Fishing (1984)
G Has a Tummy Ache (1984)
G is the Best Car (1984)
G on the Farm (1984)
The Hobyahs (1985 OUP)
G and the Monster (1985)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1985 OUP)
The Donkey that Sneezed (1985 OUP)

1986-1989
G to the Rescue (1986)
G for Ever ! (1987)
G and the Dinosaur (1988)
G and the Pirates (1989)
Drango Dragon (1989 Ladybird)
Peter Cheater (1989 Ginn)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1989 OUP)
Tobias and the Dragon : A Folk Tale from Hungary (1989 Blackie)

After 1990
The Three Little Pigs (1990 OUP)
G and the Elephant (1990)
Look and Find ABC (1990 Hippo Books)
Miranda's Umbrella (1990 Blackie)
G and the Bulldozers (1991)
(Compiled ) Rub-A-Dub-Dub : Val Biro's 77 Favourite Nursery Rhymes (1991 Blackie)
G's Merry Christmas (1992)
Three Billy Goats Gruff (1992 OUP)
Boasting Monsters (1994 Longman)
Monster Feast (1994 Longman)
Monster Pack (1994 Longman)
Jasper's Jungle Journey (1995)
Bears Can't Fly (1996)
Archie the Ugly Dinosaur (1996)
Hansel & Gretel (1997)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1997)
The Monster Birthday (1997)
The Pied Piper (1997)
The Dinosaur's Dinner (1997)

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