Denys watkins pitchford biography books

          () The Sportsman's Bedside Book · () Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox · () Manka, the Sky Gypsy....

          Denys Watkins-Pitchford

          British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author (1905–1990)

          Denys James Watkins-PitchfordMBE (25 July 1905 – 8 September 1990) was a Britishnaturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym"BB".

          His first book “The Sportsman's Bedside Book” was published in and was quickly followed up with nature based tales, such as “Wild Lone, the story of a.

        1. The book is not in any sense a biography.
        2. () The Sportsman's Bedside Book · () Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox · () Manka, the Sky Gypsy.
        3. His love of fishing and wildfowling are ensconced in three classic works: Confessions of a Carp Fisher (), Tide's Ending () and Dark Estuary ().
        4. Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym "BB".

          5. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.[1]

          Early life

          Denys Watkins-Pitchford was born in Lamport, Northamptonshire, the second son of the Revd. Walter Watkins-Pitchford and his wife, Edith.

          His elder brother, Engel, died at the age of thirteen. Denys was himself considered to be delicate as a child, and because of this was educated at home, while his younger twin, Roger, was sent away to school.

          Medlar Press publishes three books by 'BB' - Denys Watkins Pitchford - Wood Pool, Be Quiet and Go A Angling, and The Whopper.

          He spent a great deal of time on his own, wandering through the fields, and developed a love of the outdoors, which was to influence his writing. He enjoyed shooting, fishing and drawing; all these things were to influence his writing greatly.

          At the age of fifteen, he left ho