Happy 90th, Michael Grater! (British writer/illustrator/artist, "Cut and Fold an English Village," 1987)

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An art teacher in the 1950s and early 1960s, he divides his time between London and southwestern France.

"I began writing when I was a young art teacher, not long returned from war service in Europe. As a student I met a Polish refugee who had studied in Warsaw. He introduced me to the traditional Polish craft of paper cutting and to paper sculpture which, although taught in the Warsaw Academy, was hardly known as a subject in Western Europe."

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22michael%20grater%22%20paper&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(some covers)

Writings:

Make it in Paper, 1961
One Piece of Paper, 1963
Make it in Paper, 1963
Complete Book of Paper Mask Making 1967
Paper Faces 1967
Paper People 1969
Puppets, Jumping Jacks & Other Paper People 1969


Paper Play 1972
Paper Things (Make & Play)
Cut and Color Toys and Decorations 1974
Make and Play Paper Things, 1975
Cut and Color Paper Masks, 1975
Cut and Make Monster Masks in Full Color, 1978


Cut and Fold Paper Spaceships that Fly (Models & Toys) 1980
Creative Paper Toys and Crafts, 1981
Cut & Fold Extraterrestrial Invaders that Fly, 1983
Green-eyed Ghost Cat (Chilling tales series), 1984
Paper Mask Making , 1984
Alf Gorilla 1986
Cut and Assemble an Old English Village in Full Color: 12 Buildings and Structures in H-O Scale (with Marc Sewell)
Papercraft Projects with One Piece of Paper 1987
Fun Faces , 1987
Fun Figures , 1987
Fun Models, 1987
Fun Movers , 1987
Papercraft Projects (Other Paper Crafts) 1988
Alf Gorilla Adrift, 1988
On Sunday The Giant 1988
On Monday ,The Giant.... 1988
On Tuesday the Giant, 1988
On Wednesday the Giant, 1988
On Thursday the Giant, 1988
On Friday the Giant, 1988


Cut and Fold Space Stunt Fliers 16 Full-Color Models, 1992
Easy Papercraft Projects, 1993
From Odds and Ends to Making Models (Recycle for Fun), 1995
Stunt Fliers: Cut and Make 16 Full-Color Models 1997
Alf Gorilla and the Battersea Gang , 1997
"Persecuted by Oily Sludge the wharf cat, the rats of the Battersea Gang release Alf from London Zoo to act as their minder. Batty and his gang of rats need a Minder to protect them against their enemies - in particular, Oily Sludge the wharf cat. And so they kidnap a gorilla from the zoo and dress him up as a person. London goes on full alert looking for the lost gorilla, but Alf is becoming harder and harder to find as he becomes more and more human everyday."


Illustrator:
A Vampire in the Computer & The Ghost's Playground by Harry Gilbert, 1990
A House in the Sunflowers : An English Family's Search for Their Dream House in France by Ruth Silvestre, 1991
A House in the Sunflowers: Living the Dream in the South of France by Ruth Silvestre
A House in the Sunflowers: Summer in Aquitaine, by Ruth Silvestre, 1996


Lenona.

[leno...@yahoo.com]

It seems I slipped up - twice!

If this is the same person, he died in 2003. (The birthdate is a match.)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183757411/michael-grater

At any rate, when you look up his actress/author wife, it's clear she's a widow.

http://www.rupertcrew.co.uk/portfolio-item/ruth-silvestre/

More on her:

https://www.google.com/search?ei=mOw3W6LwGcHa5gKJqZKICQ&q=ruth+silvestre+&oq=ruth+silvestre+&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l2j0i67k1j0l3j0i22i30k1l4.2531.2531.0.3466.1.1.0.0.0.0.130.130.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.129....0.JnaBTrpAf6M


Lenona.