Mary Gernat

Mary Gernat was a British illustrator, known for her designs for the covers of paperback books by Enid Blyton, Frank Richards and others.

Biography Gernat was born in Ewell, Surrey, 16 Aug 1926, and underwent training at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and Regent Street Polytechnic. She also produced dust jacket designs for some hardback editions, and covers for magazines such as The Tatler.

She married Michael How, an engineer, in 1953. She had four sons, whom she used as models for her designs, and much later a daughter. From 1963 the family lived in Milford on Sea, and in 1970 they moved to Lymington. Books by Monica Edwards Sheila K. McCullagh's Griffin Pirate Stories (also known as The Griffin Readers in original editions) that were published by EJ Arnold & Sons Limited for reading in primary/infant schools from the 1950s through to the late 1980s.