An autobiography of the English children's book author and illustrator begins with her girlhood in West Kirby, and continues through World War II and her art education in a blitzed Liverpool, to a career in Oxford and London, in a volume illustrated with her own art work.An autobiography of the English children's book author and illustrator begins with her girlhood in West Kirby, and continues through World War II and her art education in a blitzed Liverpool, to a career in Oxford and London, in a volume illustrated withher own art work.