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Charles Robinson

Male : Book illustrator & Cartoonist. Son of wood engraver Thomas Robinson & elder brother of W Heath Robinson
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Islington, London

Date of Birth : 1870 Date of Death : 1937 Age : 67

Pseudonyms : Awfly Weirdly

Education : Islington HS & Highbury Sch of Art
Books written and illustrated by Robinson
Christmas Dreams
(1896 Marcus Ward) - as Awfly Weirdly
The Ten Little Babies
(1905 SPCK)
Fanciful Fowls
(1906 Dent)
Peculiar Piggies
(1906 Dent)
Black Bunnies
(1907 Blackie)
Black Doggies
(1907 Blackie)
Black Sambos
(1907 Blackie)

Picture Books for Children
Written by Charles Copeland
& illustrated by Robinson
Published by Blackie
The Book of the Zoo
(1902 Dent)
The Black Cat Book
(1905)
The Book of Ducks and Dutchies
(1905)
The Book of the Dutch Dolls
(1905)
The Book of the Fan
(1905)
The Book of the Little JDs
(1905)
The Book of the Mandarinfants
(1905)
The Book of the Little Dutch Dots
(1905)
The Silly Submarine
(1906)
The Book of Dolly's Doings
(1906)
Bouncing Babies
(1906)
The Book of Dolly's House
(1906)
The Book of Dolly Land
(1906)
Awful Airship
(1906)
Mad Motor
(1906)
The Sweet Shop
(1907)
The Toy Shop
(1907)
The Cake Shop
(1907)
Babes and Blossoms
(1908)
The Book of Other people
(1908)
The Book of Sailors
(1908)
The Book of Soldiers
(1908)

Books illustrated by Robinson
AESOP : Fables
(1895 Dent)
Hans Christian ANDERSEN : Fairy Tales
(1899 Dent) - with W Heath Robinson & T Robinson
Ruth ARKWRIGHT : Brownikins and Other Fancies
(1910 Wells Gardner) - music by J W Wilson
Phyllis AUSTIN : The Goldfish Bowl
(nd. Hutchinson) (1929 Shaw)
S BARING-GOULD : Siegfried : A Romance founded on Wagner's Operas
(1904 Dean)
Mrs A BELL : Dobbies' Little Master
(1897 Bell)
John Joy BELL : The New Noah's Ark
(1899 John Lane)
Jack of All Trades
(1900 John Lane)
William BLAKE : Songs of Innocence
(1912 Dent) - & Mary Robinson
Clare BRIDGMAN : The Book of Days for the Little Ones
(1901 Dent)
The Bairns Coronation Book
(1902 Dent)
The Shopping Day
(1902 Dent)
John Henry BURN :
(Compiled by) The Mothers' Book of Song (1902 Wells Gardner)
Frances Hodgson BURNETT : The Secret Garden
(1911 Heinemann)
The Little Hunchback Zia
(1916 Heinemann)
(Ed) William CANTON : The True Annals of Fairyland - The Reign of King Herla (1900 Dent)
Large Paper Edition offered for £275 in 1995
E CARRINGTON : Animals in the Wrong Places
(1896 Bell)
Lewis CARROLL : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1907 Cassell)
A & E CASTLE : Our Sentimental Garden
(1914 Heinemann)
C R COLERIDGE : Minstrel Dick
(1896 Gardner Darton)
Walter COPELAND : The Farm Book for Little Ones
(1901 Dent)
William Edward CULE : Child Voices
(1899 Andrew Melrose)
Rev Percy DEARMER : The Little Lives of the Saints
(1900 Wells Gardner)
Jennie DUNBAR : Young Hopeful
(1932 Herbert Jenkins)
E FIELD : Lullaby Land - Songs of Childhood
(1898 John Lane)
H FIELDING-HALL : Margaret's Book
(1913 Hutchinson)
F H C de la Motte FOUQUE : Sintram and His Companions
(1900 Dent)
Anatole FRANCE : Bee, the Princess of the Dwarfs
(1912 Dent)
N GARSTIN : The Suitors of Aprille
(1900 John Lane)
(Ed) M J GIBBON : The True Annals of Fairyland - The Reign of Old King Cole (1901 Dent)
GRIMM : Fairy Tales
(1910 Nister)
M Elsie GULLICK : Teddy's Year with the Fairies
(1920 RTS)
HOMER : The Adventures of Odysseus
(1900 Dent)
Clare JERROLD : Road, Rail and Sea
(1906 Blackie)
Douglas W JERROLD : Fireside Saints
(1903 Blackie)
(Ed) Walter JERROLD : The True Annals of Fairyland (nd. 1902 Dent)
Offered in 1998 at £275
Nonsense Nonsense !
(1902 Blackie)
The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes
(1903 Blackie)
(Ed) The Big Book of Fables (1911 Blackie) (1912 Dodge Publishing Co, NY)
Charles and Mary LAMB : Stories for Children
(1902) - with W Green
Henry Dawson LOWRY : Make Believe
(1896 John Lane)
S B MACY : In the Beginning
(1910 Sealey Clark)
B MACGREGOR : King Longbeard
(1898 John Lane)
Elizabeth MARC : Doris and David all Alone
(1922 Hutchinson)
Lewis MARSH : Old Time Tales
(nd. Henry Frowde)
Countess E MARTINENGO-CESARESCO : The Fairies' Fountain
(1908 Fairbairns)
A MATHESON : Songs of Love and Praise
(1907 Dent)
I MAUNDER : Songs of Happy Childhood
(1908 Sealey Clark) (1920 Sealey Clark)
Alice MEYNELL : The Children
(1897 John Lane, Bodley Head)
A A MILNE : Once Upon a Time
(1925 Hodder & Stoughton)
W J MINNION : Topsy Turvy
(1913 The Connoisseur)
Alice Talwyn MORRIS : My Book about New Zealand
(1912 Blackie)
My Book About the Empire
(1914 Blackie)
'NETTA' : Baby Town Ballads
(1906 Sealey Clark)
Prince Babillon or The Little White Rabbit
(1907 Sealey Clark)
Princess NUSRAT : Doris and David All Alone
(c1923 Hutchinson 6/-)
Charles PERRAULT : Tales of Passed Times
(1899 Dent)
Fairy Tales
(1913 Dent)
Jessie POPE : Babes and Birds
(1910 Blackie)
W B RANDS : Lilliput Lyrics
(1899 John Lane)
G RHYS : The Children's Garland of Verses
(1921 Dent)
George SAND : The Master Mosaic Workers
(1899 Dent)
G SETOUN : The Child World
(1896 John Lane)
William SHAKESPEARE : Songs and Sonnets
(1915 Duckworth)
E SHARP : The Child's Christmas
(1906 Blackie)
The Story of the Weathercock
(1907 Blackie)
What Happened at Christmas
(1915 Blackie)
H de Vere STACPOOLE : Pierrette
(1900 John Lane)
John G STEVENSON : Father Time Stories
(1921 RTS) (1925 RTS)
Mrs M STEVENSON : Bridget's Fairies
(1919 RTS)
Robert Louis STEVENSON : A Child's Garden of Verses
(1896 JL, Bodley Head)
(1921 JL, Bodley Head)
N SYRETT : The Vanishing Princes
(1910 David Nutt)
E TEMPLE : The Open Window
(1913 Chambers)
I H WALLIS : The Cloud Kingdom
(1905 John Lane)
Oscar WILDE : The Happy Prince
(1913 Duckworth)

The Infant Reader
(1895 Macmillan)
The First Primer
(1895 Macmillan)
The Second Primer
(1895 Macmillan)
A Bookful of Fun
(1905 Sealey Clark)
From the Arabian Nights Entertainments : The Story of Prince Ahmed & Fairy Perie Banou
(1915 Gay & Hancock)
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
(1928 Collins)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(1928 Collins)
Granny's Book of Fairy Stories
(1930 Blackie)

Related Writers

Aesop
Hans Christian Andersen
Arabian Nights Entertainments
William Blake
Lewis Carroll
Omar Khayyam
Mother Goose
Charles Perrault
William Shakespeare


See also

Sabine Baring-gould
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Washington Irving
Charles Lamb
Alan Alexander (aa) Milne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dr William Gordon Stables
Robert Louis (balfour) Stevenson