Talk:William Stobbs

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{{Authority control}} in the article footer links LC and other catalog data.
—BUT I am uncertain of the identification. At WorldCat, Ruth Manning-Sanders is not one of the listed Stobbs co-authors and the two Greenaway Medal-winning works are not among the 20 works named there (most widely held in participating libraries). The LC catalog seems to be unavailable as I write.

1959a and 1959b winners at Greenaway Medal Living Archive (2007?)
—These retro-citations do not help identify Stobbs because he is the one(?) of 100 Medal-winning writers and illustrators for whom CILIP has no biographical blurb at all.

--P64 (talk) 23:50, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

WorldCat does provide records for the two Greenaway Medal-winning works. Kashtanka; A Bundle of Ballads

By the way, those 20 most widely held works include 14 written by Ronald Syme (biographies of explorers, mainly); 1 written by Stobbs (Henny Penny; a picture book, 1968; U.S. 1970).

LC Catalog search "Stobbs, William" does hit our man.

--P64 (talk) 22:28, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Works

Juvenile biographies. (William Morrow series) For Stobbs, WorldCat shows that 14 of his 20 most widely held works are juvenile biographies written by Ronald Syme. For Syme, 18 of his reported Top 20 are biogs illustrated by Stobbs, including seven that are not listed in the Stobbs top 20. For now I have included a run-on list of all 21 Syme/Stobbs/Morrow biog subjects, relying on Syme for the sequence. (The cause of mismatch seems to be that some library records omit the illustrator from the crucial first line. Some may omit him entirely.) --P64 (talk) 23:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]