C. Walter Hodges

Cyril Walter Hodges (18 March 1909 – 26 November 2004) was an English artist and writer best known for illustrating children's books and for helping to recreate Elizabethan theatre. He won the annual Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration in 1964.

Selected works:

Books by Walter Hodges

• Columbus Sails (1939)
• Sky High, The Story of a House that Flew
• Shakespeare and the Players (1948)
• The Globe Restored: A Study of the Elizabethan Theatre (1953)
• Shakespeare's Theatre (1964)
• The Namesake: A Story of King Alfred (1964)
• Magna Carta (1966)
• The Norman Conquest (1966)
• The Marsh King: A Story of King Alfred (1967, sequel to The Namesake)
• The Spanish Armada (1967)
• The Overland Launch (1969, about the 1899 episode from Lynmouth Lifeboat Station)
• Shakespeare's Second Globe: The Missing Monument (1973)
• The Battlement Garden: Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare (1979)
• Enter the Whole Army: A Pictorial Study of Shakespearean Staging, 1576–1616 (1999)

Books by others illustrated by Hodges:

• Margaret J. Baker, The Shoe Shop Bears (1964), Hannibal and the Bears (1965)
• Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1971)
• Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse (1946), Smokey House (1939), Sister of the Angels (1939), The Dean's Watch (1960), Make-Believe (1949)
• Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers (1957)
• Alfred Duggan, Growing Up in Thirteenth-Century England (1962)
• Ruth Manning-Sanders, 'Red Indian Folk and Fairy Tales (1960)
• Mary Renault: Lion in the Gateway (1964)
• Ian Serraillier: The Silver Sword (1959) (later published without Hodges illustrations as Escape from Warsaw)
• Rosemary Sutcliff, The Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950); The Queen Elizabeth Story (1950); The Armourer's House (1951); Brother Dusty-Feet (1952); The Eagle of the Ninth (1954); The Shield Ring (1957)
• Geoffrey Trease: Bows Against the Barons (1934, revised 1977)
• Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (1955)