Painter and illustrator, Edwina Bell (Mrs Edwina Wiliams) illustrated work by Ella May McFadyen, among others, in the 1940s, as well as working for the NSW School Magazine. Since then she has illustrated some of the Collins 'Australians in History' series, including Margaret Catchpole by Nance Donkin, and Merchant Campbell by Ruth Park, and other works of well-known children's authors.
Awards for Works
A Dream of Seas
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1978children's fiction single work 'The boy is lonely following the loss of his father and clings to a fantasy of one day becoming a seal. Are they seals - or only boardriders in wetsuits? Maybe there's a magical distance where things are what you want them to be, not what they are. At least, that's the boy's dream.
It's a dream that draws him back and back to the sea, because the sea is the only world that washes them all: the boy, his drowned father, and the newborn seal cub.'
(Source: QBD Books)