Background
He was the son of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin, of whom Severn wrote a biography in 1982, Fifty Years with Father.
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Jon wants to be friends with Paul but finds herself constantly at odds with him over his efforts to prevent her from becoming acquainted with the strange girl she meets in the woods.
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He was the son of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin, of whom Severn wrote a biography in 1982, Fifty Years with Father.
Severn attended Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire, 1933-1936, and worked for the League of Nations Secretariat, Geneva (1938), Unwin Brothers (printers), 1939, Blackwells (1940) and George Allen & Unwin (1941-1943), having been declared medically unfit for the armed services.
He had Who"s Who entries throughout his writing career. His first series for children (1942-1946) featured "Crusoe" Robinson, who was befriended by youngsters in holiday adventures, many featuring a Romany group. The Warner family series followed (1947-1952), featuring pheasants, ponies and country life.
The scraperboard illustrations of Joan Kiddell-Monroe greatly enhance these two series.
A number of books experimented with the paranormal and time-slip, and can be compared with many modern books revisiting supernatural themes. has a musical youngster beating a native drum which transports children to a lost expedition to Africa twenty years earlier. Dream Gold shows the hypnotic power of one boy over another, with dreams reliving the conflicts of their ancestors.
These are his most interesting books, and the ones he wished to be remembered by. The Future Took Us is a time-slip into 3,000 Civil Engineer The Girl in the Grove, his longest book, is a psychological ghost story.
He also produced illustrated books for younger children.
Only his last three books were published by Allen and Unwin.
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