Background
Tarrant was born in Battersea, south London, the daughter of landscape painter Percy Tarrant and Sarah Wyatt Tarrant.
(Dust jacket notes: "A first Nursery Rhyme book which smal...)
Dust jacket notes: "A first Nursery Rhyme book which small children will treasure. Margaret Tarrant has taken the best-known and best-loved Nursery Rhymes and illustrated each with a big painting, full of details, which can be looked at over and over again. With your baby on your lap, you can share the enchanting pictures of Jack and Jill, Little Boy Blue, and the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, while you sing together with rhymes on the facing pages. First published many years ago 1944 this new edition is as fresh and lovely as when it first appeared."
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Tarrant was born in Battersea, south London, the daughter of landscape painter Percy Tarrant and Sarah Wyatt Tarrant.
She studied in the art department of Clapham High School and the Clapham School of Artist She studied at Heatherley’s School of Art, and at Guildford School of Art in 1935.
She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She briefly trained as a teacher, but turned to art instead. She launched her career at age 20 with an edition of Charles Kingsley"s The Water Babies.
In the 1920s, Tarrant helped to popularize fairies in a long-running series of titles on the theme such as The Forest Fairies, The Pond Fairies, and The Twilight Fairies.
During World World War II, she donated posters to the war effort, and rode an old bike to conserve petrol.
(Dust jacket notes: "A first Nursery Rhyme book which smal...)