Alison Prince obituary

Artist and children’s author who wrote the script for the BBC’s television classic TrumptonAlison Prince, who has died aged 88, was an author of more than 50 books for children, as well as an artist, poet and musician, and a TV scriptwriter best known for the BBC’s classic stop-motion animation series Trumpton.Her first script for children’s TV was for the BBC pre-school programme Watch with Mother, which she wrote following the birth of her children. With Joan Hickson, a