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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
The purpose behind this book is not only to give children a lot of enjoyment by freely splashing colour on a page, but also to introduce them to one of the UK’s best known illustrators – W. Heath Robinson, who is more famous for his illustrations of elaborate machines than he is for illustrations of children’s books. Herein you will find 51 illustrations he made for the book of old Indian tales titled The Giant Crab.Then, you may ask “Why is this an eBook and not a paperback?”The answer is quite simple. Instead of colouring in a picture once and then throwing away the book when fully used, with this ebook you will be able to print off as many of the 51 images as you like, and as often as you like, ad infinitum. In this book children are encouraged to fill in the white spaces on the 51 images. At the rear we have provided a few blank templates which children can use to create their own images which can be printed off time and again.A few of the original images, now over 120 years old, were quite small when digitised resulting in blurred outlines when they were enlarged. Where this has occurred we have endeavoured to use just about every trick in the digital graphics book to retain the integrity of the outlines.All pages have been created to A4 size, which is 29.7cm x 21cm or 8.27” x 11.69”.The closest American size is Size A or 8.5” x 11.0”.William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines designed for achieving simple objectives. Unfortunately, it is for his exquisite children’s illustrations, which feature in this book, that he is less well known.In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson" entered the popular vernacular during the 1914–1918 Great War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance, much as "Rube Goldberg machines" came to be used in the US from the 1920s onwards as a term for similar designs.
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THE GIANT CRAB
Children’s Colouring Book
with illustrations
by
W. Heath Robinson
originally appearing in the
The Giant Crab
and other Folk & Fairy Stories
From Old India
Published by
Abela Publishing, London
MMXVII
THE GIANT CRAB
COLOURING BOOK
Copyright © 2017 John Halsted
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) without the prior written permission of the publisher or author.
Published by
Abela Publishing Ltd.
Sandhurst, Berkshire, England
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.AbelaPublishing.com
ISBN 13: 978-8-826482-90-3
W. Heath Robinson
(English 1872-1944)
William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines designed for achieving simple objectives. Yet, it is for his exquisite children’s illustrations, which feature in this book, that he is less well known.
In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson" entered the popular language during the 1914–1918 Great War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance, much as "Rube Goldberg machines" came to be used in the US from the 1920s onwards as a term for similar efforts.
A "Heath Robinson contraption" is perhaps more often used in relation to temporary fixes using ingenuity and whatever is to hand, quite often string and tape, or unlikely cannibalisations. Its continuing popularity was undoubtedly linked to shortages in Britain during the Second World War and the need to make do and mend with whatever was immediately to hand.
Introduction
The purpose behind this book is not only to give children a lot of enjoyment by freely splashing colour on a page, but also to introduce them to one of the UK’s best known illustrators – W. Heath Robinson, who is more famous for his illustrations of elaborate machines than he is for illustrations of children’s books.
Then, you may ask “Why is this an eBook and not a paperback?”
The answer is quite simple. Instead of colouring in a picture once and then throwing away the book when fully used, with this ebook you will be able to print off as many of the 103 images as you like, and as often as you like ad infinitum.
In this book children are encouraged to fill in the white spaces on the 51 images. At the rear we have provided a few blank templates which can be printed off time and again.
A few of the original images, now over 120 years old, were quite small resulting in blurred outlines when they were enlarged. Where this has occurred we have endeavoured to use just about every trick in the digital graphics book to retain the integrity of the outlines.
All pages have been created to A4 size, which is 29.7cm x 21cm or 8.27” x 11.69”.The closest American size is Size A or 8.5” x 11.0”.
Enjoy!
John Halsted
Abela Publishing
