RiP Barbara Firth

25 February 2013 Books+Publishing

UK illustrator Barbara Firth has died, aged 84. Walker Books editor at large David Lloyd writes: ‘Barbara Firth was an illustrator of children’s books of great sensitivity, insight, humour and imagination. Her best-known works were probably the five “Little Bear” books, written by Martin Waddell, of which the first, Can’t You...