Roald Dahl wrote a screenplay based on the book, which was turned into a film in 1968. In it, inventor Caractacus Potts renovates an old car that soon begins acting independent of its drivers, and hilarity ensues. His artwork was also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grolier Club, and other New York-based institutions.Ĭhitty Chitty Bang Bang! was the only children's book written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. (John Burningham illustrated the original edition published in 1964.)īorn and raised in the City That Never Sleeps, Tobey (1909-1989) illustrated dozens of children's books and cartoons for a range of outlets: 1,200 covers for The New Yorker alone, as well as covers and illustrations for Collier's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Variety. Tobey illustrated the emerging reader's version adapted by Al Perkins. Twenty-nine original preparatory pieces are currently on display alongside page proofs from the book. Illustrator Barney Tobey's illustrations for the classic children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! The Magical Car (Random House, 1968) have recently been acquired by the New-York Historical Society.
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