Male : Poet, critic and children's writer

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1909 Date of Death : 1978 Age : 69

Pseudonyms : John Reeves

All Heinemann unless stated
1949-1955
The Imprisoned Sea (nd. 1949 Editions Poetry, London)
The Wandering Moon (1950) - Evadne Rowan
Mulcaster Market : 3 Plays for Young People (1951) - Dudley Cutler
The Password & other Poems (1952 London)
The Blackbird in the Lilac : Verses (1952 OUP) - Edward Ardizzone
The King Who Took Sunshine (1954) - play
English Fables and Fairy Stories Retold (1954 OUP) - Joan Kiddell-Monroe

1956-1960
The Critical Sense : Practical Criticism of Prose & Poetry (1956 Heinemann)
Pigeons and Princesses (1956) - Edward Ardizzone
A Health to John Patch : A Ballad Operatta (1957 Boosey)
Prefabulous Animiles (1957) - verse. Edward Ardizzone
The Modern Poet's World (1957 Heinemann 8/6)
Mulbridge Manor (1958) - Geraldine Spence
(Ed) The Idiom of the People (1958 London)
Teaching Poetry : Poetry in Class Five to Fifteen (1958 Heinemann)
(Ed) A Golden Land : Stories, Poems, Songs New & Old (1958 Constable) - various artists
Titus in Trouble (1959 Bodley Head) - Edward Ardizzone
Exploits of Don Quixote, Retold (1959 Blackie) (1960 Walck, NY) - Edward Ardizzone
The Wandering Moon (1960 Dutton, NY) - Edward Ardizzone
(Ed) The Everlasting Circle (1960 London)
Collected Poems 1929-1959 (1960)

1961-1965
Fables from Aesop, Retold (1961 Blackie) - Maurice Wilson
Ragged Robin (1961) - verse. Jane Paton
Hurdy-Gurdy : Selected Poems for Children (1961) - Edward Ardizzone
(Selected & Intro) Georgian Poetry (1962 Penguin pb 3/6)
Sailor Rumbelow and Britannia (1962) - Edward Ardizzone
The Strange Light (1964) - Lynton Lamb
The Story of Jack Thimble (1964 Dutton) (1965 Chatto & Windus) - Verse. Edward Ardizzone
Three Tall Tales, Chosen from Traditional Sources (1964 Abelard & Schuman) - Edward Ardizzone
The Questioning Tiger (1964 Heinemann 15/-) - poetry
The Road to a Kingdom : Stories from the Old and New Testaments (1965) - Richard Kennedy
The Pillar-box Thieves (1965 Nelson) - Dick Hart

1966-1970
The Secret Shoemakers and Other Stories (1966 Abelard Schuman) - Edward Ardizzone
The Cold Flame, Based on a Tale from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm
(1967 HH) - Charles Keeping
Rhyming Will (1967 Hamish Hamilton) - Edward Ardizzone
The Trojan Horse (1968 HH) - K Turska
Homage to Trumbull Stickney (1968)
Heroes and Monsters : Legends of Ancient Greece Retold - 1 Gods and Voyagers
(1969 Blackie) - Sarah Nechamkin
The Angel and the Donkey (1969 HH) - Edward Ardizzone
Mr Horrox and the Gratch (1969 Abelard Schuman) - Quentin Blake

1971-1975
Heroes and Monsters : Legends of Ancient Greece Retold - 2 Islands and Palaces
(1971 Blackie) - Sarah Nechamkin
Maildun the Voyager (1971 HH) - John Lawrence
How the Moon Began (1971 Abelard Schuman) - Edward Ardizzone
The Path of Gold (1972 HH) - Krystna Turska
Complete Poems for Children (1973) - Edward Ardizzone
The Forbidden Forest & Other stories (1973) - Raymond Briggs
The Voyage of Odysseus : Homer's Odyssey Retold (1973 Blackie)
Collected Children's Poems (1973)
Collected Poems 1929-1974 (1974 Heinemann) - 50 signed
Two Greedy Bears (1974 HH) - Gareth Floyd
The Lion that Flew (1974 Chatto & Windus) - Edward Ardizzone
Collected Poems 1929-1974 (1974) - 50 numbered & signed
More Prefabulous Animiles (1975) - Edward Ardizzone

After 1976
The Clever Mouse (1976 C & W) - Barbara Swiderska
Quest and Conquest : Pilgrim's Progress Retold (1976 Blackie) - Joanna Troughton
Arcadian Ballads (1977 Whittington Press) - 250 signed by Author & Ardizzone
The Closed Door (1977 Gruffyground Press, Somerset)
- 240 signed by Reeves & Richard Shirley Smith
Eggtime Stories (1978 Blackie) - Colin McNaughton
The James Reeves Storybook (1978) - Ardizzone
Arcadian Ballads (1978 Heinemann) - Ardizzone
Snow-White and Rose-Red (1979 Andersen Press) - Jenny Rodwell]
A Prince in Danger (1979 Kaye & Ward) - Gareth Floyd