Monica Walker (illustrator)

Monica Walker was a writer and illustrator, active in the United Kingdom in the 1940s and 1950s.

Monica Walker
Alma mater	Central School of Arts and Crafts
Occupation	Illustrator, writer

She was a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the late 1930s.[1] She is depicted as a shopkeeper in an illustration, High Street, by her fellow student Hilary Stebbing.

Walker worked for a time as a draughtswoman in an aircraft factory.[2]

She illustrated children's books, including her own The Educated Pig (Oxford University Press; 1949) and texts by others such as Ditties for the Nursery (Oxford University Press, 1954) by Iona Opie, Trouble for Tembo (Dolphin Books/ University of London Press, 1958) by Lesley Bourne, and Martin's Holiday (Dolphin Books/ University of London Press, 1960) by Enid Wiseman.

Her work was featured on the cover of the 1956 Christmas edition of Radio Times.[3]

A 1947 portrait photograph of Walker, by John Gay, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.[4] She was photographed by Gay for, and featured in, an article in The Strand Magazine, "Eight Young Artists in Search of an Editor",[5][2] in which she was said to be living with her parents in Surbiton.[2]

The University of the Arts London (the successor to the Central School of Arts and Crafts) has three of her works in its collection.[1]