Ronald Lampitt

Lampitt is the star of many informative books for children. If he did idealise children into Janet and John types, he drew landscapes, townscapes as real places for real people, and with an understated pallette. He rarely appears in dictionaries of illustrators.
 
illustration to The Map That Came to Life ,described by H.J.Deverson,and published undated c1950, the comparison of the flat conventions of the ordinance Survey and the three dimensional actuality.
 
illustration to the cover of The Open Road described by H.J.Deverson, London 1965.The journey undetaken during the book is neatly summed up as a sort of quiz at the end.
 
and my favourite,
The Picture Map of Adventure Holidays,
from H.J.Deverson's Mainly for Children , 1960.