Ian Serraillier (1912–1994)
Author of The Silver Sword
About the Author
Image credit: Serraillier playing the piano. Old dictionary of children's authors, photographer unknown
Works by Ian Serraillier
Associated Works
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 6, February 1976 — Contributor — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Serraillier, Ian
- Legal name
- Serraillier, Ian Lucien
- Birthdate
- 1912-09-24
- Date of death
- 1994-11-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Cocking, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK - Education
- Brighton College
St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (BA|1935) - Occupations
- children's book author
English teacher
poet
novelist - Organizations
- Society of Friends
Members
Discussions
WW2 Childrens storybook - title or author unknown in Name that Book (December 2011)
Reviews
Lists
Sonlight Books (1)
THE WAR ROOM (2)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 59
- Also by
- 19
- Members
- 3,596
- Popularity
- #7,049
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 53
- ISBNs
- 104
- Languages
- 2
The structure of the book is quite interesting - it feels like a bunch of vignettes, rather than having an overarching narrative. You could drop one of the sections, without it significantly affecting the narrative. Still, it is a fascinating story, very evocative of the broken Europe left after World War 2.… (more)