Monday 16 June — Friday 5 September 2014

Tigers, caterpillars and other wild things

Children's books in the 1960s

Monday - Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm

A delight for visitors of all ages, this exhibition features a host of much-loved characters and stories from children's books of the 1960s selected from the Children's Books and Book Design collections held at Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections. It includes well-known publishers such as Ladybird and Puffin, and authors and illustrators including Eric Carle, Roald Dahl, Alan Garner, Judith Kerr, Doreen Roberts, Maurice Sendak, Brian Wildsmith and John Wyndham.

Free Admission.

Image credit: Original illustration by Doreen Roberts for "A Quarrel of Witches" by Margaret Storey, Faber and Faber, London, 1970 © Doreen Roberts.