Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell (4 June 1879 – 5 November 1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, based on her daughter, Peggy. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines. Attwell was born in Mile End, London, 4 June 1879, the sixth child of butcher Augustus Attwell and his wife Emily Ann. She was educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school. She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art, and but left to develop
Helen Cooper (illustrator) shortlist for "The Bear Under the Stairs" (Doubleday, 1993) and "Tatty Ratty" (Doubleday, 2001). Cooper is married to the American illustrator and picture book artist Ted Dewan. He was a commended runner up for the 2000 Greenaway for "Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All". Her one published book as a writer, beside her solo picture books, is a 75-page novella that Dewan illustrated: "Sandmare" (London: Young Corgi, 2001; ). WorldCat reports that "Pumpkin Soup" is her work most widely held in participating libraries. Cooper is both the writer and the illustrator of twelve published picture books and a set