[PW] Re: british children's author "Alex ____" ("Bricha, Brica, something?"

[Sylvia Milne]

I don't know about the spectacles, but could it be  Axel Scheffler?
There's a bit about him at http://www.imagesofdelight.com/client.asp?id=67
or  http://tinyurl.com/yfwkg4

Sylvia Milne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ptak" <jfptak at thesciencebookstore.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:05 PM
Subject: [PW] british children's author "Alex ____" ("Bricha, 
Brica,something?"


> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to remember the name of a children's book author and 
> illustrator, "Alex ____"; I cannot remember the name of any of his books, 
> but each book did include, somewhere on every page, a large black pair of 
> spectacles.  The books were aimed at beginning readers and were quite 
> simply written but just wonderful.  Perhaps his surname is Slavic?  I'm 
> sorry that I don't have more.