Edmund Blampied elected to the Royal Society of British Artists. Later that year he was asked to prepare some new illustrations for a lavish edition of Peter Pan, the rights to which had been bequeathed by J. M. Barrie to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The "Blampied Edition of Peter and Wendy" was published in 1939 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and by Scribners in the US, and is one of the finest illustrated editions of this book. By the time "Peter and Wendy "was published Blampied had moved from London to Jersey with the intention of settling there.
Yakov and the Seven Thieves and the United States, and Hanser Verlag in Germany. Madonna promoted the book by appearing on ABC News on June 16, 2004, where she dedicated the release to "naughty children everywhere" and spoke about the power of praying according to her. While on the Re-Invention World Tour of 2004, Madonna visited London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, where her daughter Lourdes read an excerpt from the book to a group of ailing children. The cover art and the images inside were painted by Russian illustrator Gennady Spirin. This was Spirin's first time working with a contemporary author and story, and was