Squid Ink says vale to Stan and Jan Berenstain Squid Ink, happily in water on a rare occasion, is reading and along comes one of The Berenstain Bears. It’s handy having extra tentacles so you can hold the book out of the bath. ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
It is with much regret that I discovered the passing of Jan Berenstain today. Paired with her husband, Stan who died in 2005, Jan produced some marvellous stories about the Berenstain Bears which have entertained many generations of children. I’m sad to say I don’t recall these books from my ...
One of my favourite illustrators from my childhood was Ronald Searle, I have one of his books in front of me, it’s been on my bookshelf almost as long as I remember. The book is Modern Types by Geoffrey Gorer and Ronald Searle, published in 1955 it is a fabulous ...
Squid Ink and I would like to take this opportunity to give Anne McCaffrey’s family and friends our condolences. McCaffrey was a fabulous writer and it is wonderful to have her books to stay with us forever more. Squid Ink Impresses I have written about McCaffrey before and I won’t ...
You all know what it’s like to lose a favourite author. There’s the shock, the hole in one’s life when you know they’ll never write another book, and you know they’ll never write another blog post, you’ll never be able to meet them or get their signature. We’re at that ...
I’ve just heard the news today of the passing of John Ryan, the creator of the fabulous Captain Pugwash, at the age of 88. It was while he was teaching art at Harrow School in the north west suburbs of London that he first drew Captain Pugwash as a comic ...