Christine Gittings

A slightly random entry. I believe Christine Gittings was a sub-editor on Jack & Jill comic in the mid-1950s (there was certainly a Miss C. Gittings writing captions for them briefly). Possibly (probably?) the same Christine Gittings who wrote the following series of six little (32-page) children's books:

Animal Friends series:
__1: Rodney the Snake Charmer, illus. Edward Ormond. London, Oxford University Press, 1957.
__2: Digger Was a Piebald Mole, illus. Kenneth Hauff. London, Oxford University Press, 1957.
__3: Acrobats of Beechy Wood, illus. Edward Ormond. London, Oxford University Press, 1957.
__4: Spinycoat the Hedgehog, illus. Edward Ormond. London, Oxford University Press, 1957.
__5: Topsy & Turvy Tortoise, illus. Edward Ormond. London, Oxford University Press, 1957.
__6: Stareybob the Friendly Toad, illus. Edward Ormond. London, Oxford University Press, 1957.

A little earlier, Christine Gittings is credited with a number of short stories sold to Gerald G. Swan, notorious 'mushroom' publisher of the 1940s and early 1950s, including 'Arachne' in Weird Story Magazine 2 (1946), 'Oh! To Be a Wasp' in Fairies Album 1949 (1948) and 'Beneath the Mountain' in Weird & Occult Library 2 (1960), although the latter was probably sold in the 1940s.

But is she the same Christine Gittings who wrote a lengthy book of poetry entitled Dreamer's Canvas (London, The Mitre Press, 1976)?

(* The rather poor picture I nabbed from a recent eBay sale.)