Lovers of the BBC story slot can recapture their childhood with illustrator’s images for Stig of the Dump and more
A good story creates pictures inside a child’s head, but the much-loved BBC television show Jackanory was not content to leave it at that. Throughout the last half of the 20th century, commissioned illustrations were as much a part of the programme’s magic as the books. If many of its viewers still have a firm idea what Stig of the Dump looks like, it’s probably thanks to the work of artist Gareth Floyd.
Some of the most evocative images from the Jackanory back catalogue are now being put up for sale for the first time. Suffolk-born Floyd, 81, is selling more than 1,200 of his storyboard illustrations in an online auction this month: they include many images from Clive King’s Stig of the Dump, and from children’s books by Penelope Lively, Cecil Day-Lewis and Jill Paton Walsh.
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