Robin Hyman

Robin Philip Hyman (9 September 1931 – 12 January 2017) was a British publisher who was the chairman of Laurence King Publishing from 1991 to 2004. Between 1949 and 1951, he completed his National Service in the Royal Air Force, and then studied for an undergraduate degree in English

Published works Dictionaries The Modern Dictionary of Quotations (Evans Bros., 1962) Boys' and Girls' First Dictionary (Evans Bros., 1967) Evans First Dictionary (Evans Bros., 1976) Universal Primary Dictionary (Evans Bros., 1976) Bell & Hyman First Colour Dictionary (Bell & Hyman, 1985)

Children's books All of the listed works were co-written with Inge Neufeld and illustrated by Yutaka Sugita, unless indicated otherwise: Barnabas Ball at the Circus (Evans Bros., 1967) Runaway James and the Night Owl (Evans Bros., 1968) Run, Run, Chase the Sun (Evans Bros., 1969) The Happiest Elephant in the World (Evans Bros., 1969) Three Bags Full: An Anthology of Nursery Rhymes (Evans Bros., 1972) Happy With Hubert (Evans Bros., 1972) The Hippo Who Wanted To Fly (Evans Bros., 1973) The Magical Fish (Evans Bros., 1974) Casper and the Lion Cub (Evans Bros., 1974) The Fairy Tale Book (Evans Bros., 1974) Casper and the Rainbow Bird (Evans Bros., 1975) The Greatest Explorers in the World (Evans Bros., 1978) The Treasure Box (Evans Bros., 1980) Peter's Magic Hide-and-Seek (Evans Bros., 1982)