Talk:The Borrowers

Split

With what - In principle I agree - but there is no content here yet to split! :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 11:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I definately agree with you, kevinalewis. However maybe more content would be added if the split happened? I don't know but i definately think it should split. Slayer2004C 13:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Award winning movie

It claims The Borrowers movie (1997) was 'award winning', which I think is misleading. It won one obscure award, and was nominated for two others. It's very poorly rated on IMDB (5.6)... I'm going to remove this. EAi (talk) 17:26, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Illustration

Did Mary Norton do the cover, original and/or depicted here? Was the first edition illustrated? By Mary Norton? If not, who illustrated later edition(s)? Ideally we should learn and state how widely some interior illustrations, perhaps original, have been reused in new editions. --of the five books and the omnibus.

Template {{Authority control}} now in her biography footer links U.S. LC and other Catalog data. Among many other useful things LCC identifies Diana Stanley as illustrator of the first editions books 1-4 (Pauline Baynes book 5); Beth and Joe Krush as illustrators of all five U.S. editions. ...

Probably this article should have section "Publication history" but the illustration is so important that I won't distract from that! --P64 (talk) 15:35, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

LCC also lists The Borrowers omnibus (Dent, 1966) with the original illustrations.[by Stanley]

--P64 (talk) 16:40, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Diana Stanley (or Diana L. Stanley)

Stanley, Diana L. at LC Authorities — with 6 catalog records

Identity may be doubted as those 6 records include only one late Borrowers ed.LC: 50th Anniversary edition (2003) altho LC catalog does include records of some British editions that name Stanley as illustrator.LC: book 1 (1952); LC: omnibus (1966)

Michael Hague

LC: The Borrowers (1991), ill. Michael Hague

--P64 (talk) 19:01, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Sian Bailey reappeared here, soon after my last visit.[1] Bailey is another illustrator of some later edition. --Puffin 1993, at least.[2]

!-- ISFDB is a good source to begin expanded coverage of Publication history in its own section, probably for the entire series --> (That is a copy of my old WP:COMMENT concerning [ref name=isfdb/].) Beside naming cover artists in the main table for a book, and interior illustrators at one remove, ISFDB has pages for almost all the named participants. For instance, Pauline Baynes provided new cover art for the 1980 UK edition but the original Diana L Stanley interior illustrations were retained. See the main page for book 1 (which doesn't identify any Sian Bailey cover art).

--P64 (talk) 18:27, 25 September 2014 (UTC)