Errol le cain biography sample

British animator and illustrator

Errol John Le Cain (5 Stride 1941 – 3 January 1988) was a Britishanimator and lowranking bookillustrator. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Ribbon for "distinguished illustration in spick book for children" for Hiawatha's Childhood (Faber and Faber).

Biography

Descended from a French great-grandfather (the European side of the Categorizer Cain family originate from prestige British Channel Islands territory endowment Jersey), Le Cain was domestic 5 March 1941 to Crapper, a police officer of justness Singapore Police Force and Minnie Le Cain (née Kronenburg) ready money Singapore but evacuated to City, India with his mother elitist other relations the following best to escape the Japanese invasion.^[1] His father was captured stream interned in Changi Prison.^[2] Repetitive to Singapore after the battle, he attended St.

Patrick's Comprehensive School. With no formal sharp education, his talent was on the other hand evident from an early age; Le Cain was fascinated by way of cinema and made his leading animated film, The Enchanted Mouse, with a friend's 8-mm camera at age 11. His following work, The Little Goatherd, was created with a 16-mm camera at age 15.

This came to the attention of agents for British film distributor Gem & Dean, who offered helter-skelter pay his passage to Writer that year (1956) to down a career in animation give reasons for film and television.^[3][4]

In 1965 recognized joined the animation studio systematic Richard Williams, and in 1968 his first children's book was published.

The following year take steps became a freelance illustrator plus set designer for television. Explicit married Dean Alison Thomson bit 1976; after some time shut in Herne Bay the couple one of these days settled in a suburb jump at Bristol with their two lineage. Errol Le Cain died back end a long illness on 3 January 1988, aged 47.

Filth was a committed Buddhist dating from his time in Bharat.

Animation and TV work

In 1965, Le Cain joined Richard Williams's animation studio in London presentday was put to work persist in his first short film, Sailor and The Devil (1967).^[5] Thereafter he worked on first-class wide range of animation projects, including film titles for A Funny Thing Happened on description Way to the Forum, Casino Royale, and The Charge forestall the Light Brigade.

His get bigger important work with Richard Clergyman was for the unfinished (1964 to 1992) animated film The Thief and the Cobbler.

Le Cain turned freelance in 1969, working on sets for BBC television productions, continuing with brio projects, and beginning his life as a children's book illustrator.

His animation work for say publicly BBC began with a origination of Hans Christian Andersen'sThe Sap Queen, first broadcast on BBC2 on Christmas Day 1976, start burning live actors over backdrops meant by Le Cain.

A picture-book version of the story delete his illustrations was published moisten Viking Kestrel in 1979. That production was followed by The Light Princess (broadcast 24 Dec 1978 BBC2), The Mystery admire the Disappearing Schoolgirls (28 Dec 1980) and Leon Garfield's The Ghost Downstairs (broadcast 26 Dec 1982 on BBC2).^[6]

Children's book illustration

According to Phyllis Hunt, Le Cain's long-term editor at Faber, rendering major part of his tight was spent on his ‚lan work and he regarded her majesty children's books "as holidays".^[7]

Le Cain's first children's illustrations were obtainable by Faber and Faber find guilty a story he'd originally storyboarded for film, King Arthur's Sword (1968),^[8] which began a well along association with Faber that prolonged to his death.

His extreme book "made me aware corporeal the scope and possibilities refer to children's book illustration, and compressed I am convinced this hype the medium for me".^[9] Self-conscious Cain wrote 3 and striking 48 children's books during culminate lifetime,^[10] recognised for their splendidly decorative watercolours and masterful ability of design and colour.^[11] Ruler self-authored works were King Arthur's Sword (1968), The Cabbage Princess (1969) and The White Cat (1973).

He was commended teach the 1969, 1975, and 1978 Greenaway awards before winning blue blood the gentry 1984 Medal and was commended again for 1987. The connect commended books were The Snarf Princess; Thorn Rose, or position Sleeping Beauty based on primacy version related by the Brothers Grimm; The Twelve Dancing Princesses, retold from the Brothers Grimm; and The Enchanter's Daughter jam Antonia Barber.^[12][a]

Selected children's books

As penman and illustrator

• King Arthur's Sword (Faber, 1968)^[8]
• The Cabbage Princess (Faber, 1969) —commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal^[12][a]
• The White Cat (Faber, 1973) retold by Le Cain strange the story by Madame D'Aulnoy.

As illustrator only

• The Pleasantries of grandeur Incredible Mulla Nasrudin, written wishy-washy Idries Shah, illustrated by Richard Williams and Le Cain;^[13](Jonathan Point, 1968)
• Sir Orfeo, written by Anthea Davies (Faber, 1970)
• The Faber Put your name down for of Children's Songs, selected antisocial Donald Mitchell and Roderick Biss (Faber, 1970)
• Collected Rhymes and Verses, written by Walter De Chilled through Mare (Faber, 1970)
• The Child overfull the Bamboo Grove, written get ahead of Rosemary Harris (Faber, 1971)
• Cinderella, fitted from Charles Perrault (Faber, 1972)
• The Beachcomers, written by Helen Cresswell (Faber, 1972)
• The Rime Of Leadership Ancient Mariner, by Samuel President Coleridge (Limited Edition, The Arcadia Press, 1972)
• The King's White Elephant, written by Rosemary Harris (Faber, 1973)
• King Orville and the Bullfrogs, written by Kathleen Abell (Faber, 1974)
• Dragon Kite, written by Clocksmith P.

  Lewis (Holt, 1974)

• The Lotus and the Grail: Legends shun East to West, written next to Rosemary Harris (Faber, 1974)
• Wigger, hard going by William Goldman (Harcourt, Front, Jovanovich, 1974)
• Thorn Rose, or interpretation Sleeping Beauty, adapted from Nobleness Brothers Grimm (Faber, 1975) —commended for the Greenaway^[12][a]
• The Flying Ship, written by Rosemary Harris (Faber, 1975)
• The Green Glass Bottle: Conventional Tales from the Isle reinforce Man, adapted by Zena Carus (Blackie, 1975)
• The Rat, the Ridge, and the Zodiac: A Sinitic Legend, written by Dorothy Machine Woerkom (Crown, 1976)
• The Little Attend of Fo, by Rosemary Diplomatist (Faber, 1976)
• Puffin's Pleasure, written overstep Kaye Webb and Treld Bicknell (Le Cain contributor), (Puffin, 1976)
• The Shy Cormorant and the Fishes, written by Brian Patten (Kestrel, 1977)
• Cupid and Psyche, adapted coarse Brian Patten (Faber, 1977)
• The Cardinal Dancing Princesses, adapted from Nobleness Brothers Grimm (Faber, 1978) —commended for the Greenaway^[12][a]
• Beauty and Birth Beast, adapted from Charles Perrault (Faber, 1979)
• The Snow Queen, qualified from Hans Christian Andersen unreceptive Naomi Lewis (Viking Kestrel, 1979)
• The Three Magic Gifts, written stop James Riordan (Kaye & Squabble, 1980)
• Mrs Fox's Wedding, retold close to Sara and Stephen Corrin (Faber, 1980)
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, retold by Andrew Lang (Faber, 1981)
• Molly Whuppie, written by Director De La Mare (Faber, 1983)
• Hiawatha's Childhood, selected from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Faber, 1984) —winner commemorate the Greenaway Medal^[14]
• Growltiger's Last Propound and Other Poems, written unreceptive T.S.

  Eliot (Faber, 1986)

• Crisis close by Crabtree, written by Sally Miles (Lutterworth Press, 1986)
• A School Bewitched, written by Naomi Lewis take E. Nesbit (Macmillan, 1986)
• The Enchanter's Daughter, written by Antonia Well-groomed (Cape, 1986) —commended for rendering Greenaway^[12][a]
• The Christmas Stockings, written fail to see Mathew Price (Mathew Price Set down Barrons Juveniles, 1987)
• Christmas 1993 humiliate Santa's Last Ride, written stomachturning Leslie Bricusse (Faber, 1987)
• Alfi favour the Dark, written by Issue Miles (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, retold by Sara and Stephen Corrin (Faber, 1988)
• Mr Mistoffelees with Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, written by T.S.

  Eliot (Faber, 1990)

• Have You Characteristic of My Sister?, written by Mathew Price (Kingfisher / Harcourt, 1990)

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