BOOK ILLUSTRATION

Four illustrations (pen and ink) in James R. Scrimgeour’s Dikel, Your Hands and Other Poems. Spoon River Poetry Press (1979)

Seventy-four pencil illustrations for Sticklewort and Feverfew (The Pikestaff Press, 1980); the book won the 1981 Friends of American Writers Juvenile Book Merit Award for author/illustrator.

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The Second Edition of Sticklewort and Feverfew (2020) is published electronically on this website, and the entire text and all 74 of its illustrations may be downloaded as a PDF file free of charge by clicking on the following link: Sticklewort and Feverfew (46 Mb).

Two illustrations (pen and ink), as frontispiece for The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. Rodger L. Tarr and Fleming McClelland. (Greenwood, FL: The Penkevill Publishing Co., 1986) The illustrations are imaginative portraits depicting a youthful Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle as they might have appeared in 1822. (Pictures drawn in 1981).

The Second Edition (2020) of the Farringford Cadenza (with my cover) is published electronically on this website, and the entire text may be downloaded as a PDF file free of charge by clicking on the following link: The Farringford Cadenza (11 Mb).

The Akond of Swat by Edward Lear (numerous illustrations) The poem was illustrated (if not illuminated) by Robert D. Sutherland, having himself returned from a trip to India in 1997.

"Thoughts on the Writing of Children’s Literature and A Few Words about Illustrating Children’s Books." Distributed as handouts to creative writing classes, and published electronically on this website June, 2011.

Book Cover Design. Published electronically on this website and on the blogsite http://mystery-writing-vergil.blogspot.com (May 1, 2011)