A Tiny Story of Blinky Bill: Cloth Book
By (Author) Dorothy Wall
New Holland Publishers
Young Reed
9th January 2024
Australia
Children
Fiction
Rag book
8
p>strong>Ages: 6 months +/strong> /span>/p> p>Introduce your baby to books with these bright crinkly cloth books. Smooth fabric and crinkle pa- per inserts encourage tactile play, while the bright illustrations engage early visual awareness.,/p> p>Introduce your baby to the world around them. /p>
p>span>Dorothy Wall (1894-1942), author and illustrator, was born on 12 January 1894 at Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand, daughter of Charles James William Wall, soldier, and his wife Lillian, neacute;e Palethorpe, both English born. From the age of 10 Dorothy won scholarships and studied at the Christchurch School of Art and Wellington Technical School. Migrating to Sydney in 1914, she joined thenbsp;/span>i>Sun/i>span>nbsp;newspaper; in October she had an illustration in thenbsp;/span>i>Lone Hand/i>span>; in 1920 her children's story,nbsp;/span>i>Tommy Bear and the Zookies/i>span>, was published. On 4 November 1921 at St Alban's Anglican Church, Five Dock, she married Andrew Delfosse Badgery, a clerk./span>/p>