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Published Work In Chronological Order
King Arthur's Sword
The Cabbage Princess
Sir Orfeo
Rhymes and Verses
The Faber Book of Children's Songs
The House on the Strand
The Child in the Bamboo Grove
Cinderella
The Beachcombers
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Early Britain: The Celts and the Romans
Let's Find Out About Halloween
The King's White Elephant
The White Cat
The Caine Mutiny
Wigger
The Lotus and the Grail
The Dragon Kite
The Devil's Piper
The Flying Ship
Thorn Rose
The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mullah Nasrudin
Judge Pao
The Green Glass Bottle
King Orville and the Bullfrogs
The Puffin Annual Number 2
The Rat, the Ox and the Zodiac
The Little Dog of Fo
Kammerer's Cave
Puffin's Pleasure
Cupid and Psyche
The Sly Cormorant and the Fishes
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Snow Queen
Beauty and the Beast
Mrs. Fox's Wedding
The Three Magic Gifts
Aladdin
Molly Whuppie
Hiawatha's Childhood
A School Bewitched
The Light Princess - Video
The Snow Queen - Video
Growltiger's Last Stand and other poems
Crisis at Crabtree
The Enchanter's Daughter
The Christmas Stockings
Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Alfi and the Dark
Tail Feathers From Mother Goose
Mr. Mistoffelees
Have You Seen My Sister
Additional Animation Work

The Beachcombers
Helen Cresswell
Published by Faber and Faber in 1972
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Illustration work:
Dustwrapper illustration
Four full page and seven smaller black and white illustrations

There is also a Puffin paperback, published in 1978, with a slightly different cover illustration, the ones inside are the same.

Errol Le Cain The Beachcombers  Errol Le Cain The Beachcombers
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Synopsis (taken from front flap)
"Two worlds - the certain, workaday town filled with ticking clocks and people talking about the weather that scarcely touched them under their safe red tiles and the sea, harnassed not to clocks but to the moon and the winds making its own rhythm, carrying the weather people on its back"...

Sample illustration


Errol Le Cain the Beachcombers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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