William Stobbs

William Stobbs

William Stobbs (born June 27, 1914 in South Shields, England; died April 6, 2000) was an author and illustrator. From 1950 to 1958, he served as the head of the design department at the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades.

In 1959, he won the Kate Greenaway Medal for his work as an illustrator on both "Kashtanka" and "A Bundle of Ballads", the second being a compilation of Child Ballads by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Stobbs also illustrated "Gianni and the Ogre", by Manning-Sanders.

Some of his papers are [http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-1911.xml collected at the University of Minnesota.]


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