ENID BLYTON - INDIAN SUMMER

Just finished reading The Boy Next Door. It was a suprise charity shop find....not too dear for an Enid Blyton as the dust jacket has a dirty great rip in it....all the Aunty Enid favourites....3 children & a dog, home from boarding school for the holidays, an empty (or is it?) house next door, a mysterious boy & an abandoned house boat....marvellous!
Another plus are the illustrations by Gilbert Dunlop. Some of the illustrators of Enids adventure books can be hit or miss but Gilbert Dunlop is one of the best.

Here are a few of his pen & ink (& brush), black & white drawings...minimal, but with a few strokes he can evoke the brilliant sunshine & deep shade of high summer.

He also does fantastic trees....ones you would love to climb or make a treehouse in....others that look sinister...

Gilbert Dunlop does great movement too!

 Dont know much about Mr Dunlop except he was Scottish, he also illustrated for other authors...anymore info gladly received readers....meanwhile Aunty Enid has reminded me this is supposed to be a food blog!
Next time then, something about food....heres some soup, but im planning on travelling to the extreme extremities of SANDWICH MAKING!

Soup?...In a packet??.....Soup made with powdered tail of a cow? You're having a larf!