London Evening News
December 13, 1975
JONATHON JUMPS ON THE ONE-MAN BANDWAGON
When guitar player Jonathon Coudrille was laying flat on his back recovering from a car crash he found time hanging heavily on his hands - so he wrote a children's book.
The book - an animal alphabet was a success and Coudrille was on the way to becoming a big name in the children's book business.
His second book was the runaway best seller Farmer Fisher.  With the book came a record and the whole thing, book, pictures, song, words, music and performance was the work of Coudrille.
Sales of the book have reached 14,000 copies and by Christmas, 18,000 children could be reading it.  The song on the record is being sung in assembly at some schools….
Coudrille appeared on children's television in the West Country and wrote songs for the BBC…

The Guardian
October 16, 1975
AUTUMN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN - ALL THE FUN OF THE FARM

Easily the best buy among the season's picture books is Jonathon Coudrille's hilarious one-man mixed-media show Farmer Fisher.  As the blurb admits, it's really a clever new roundup of Old MacDonald's farmyard, with Farmer Fisher setting out in his muck-coloured truck bulging with fatstock and flora.  The truck breaks down, and so, spectacularly, does the mad miscellany of motors he hails to give him a tow.  In the end, it's the horse ("of course") that pulls the whole cavalcade to market.

Mr Coudrille wrote it, drew it, and sings it in rattling Country and Western style.  It all works together very well, and went straight to the top of the charts with my sixes and sevens!

Cumberland News
December 17, 1974
JONATHON COUDRILLE

Jonathon Coudrille's A Beastly Collection is a lark:  a beast of beasts take on the shape of a letter and inspire an alliterative comment: W, for example, is three walking walruses "walking in the wet" in "Wellingtons and waiters' waistcoats". 

Amusing and cleverly engineered.

The Cornishman
October 17, 1974
BEASTS

Jonathon Coudrille, born and raised in Cadgwith, has written and illustrated a delightful and humorous ABC "A Beastly Collection".

The animal world with verse and drawings in unique style of presentation, are given alliterative explanations.

For example: "U" of course if for Unicorn: "Ulric the unicorn is an unusual, indeed, unlikely, ungulate (ungulates are animals which have hooves)".

A book with hours of pleasure to be captured and recaptured.

Newsagent & Bookshop
October 11, 1974
BEASTLY

A new and rather splendid ABC has recently been published by Frederick Warne.  It is called A Beastly Collection and it is a distinguished looking, large format book drawn and written by Jonathon Coudrille, and given apt typographical support by the publishers.

It is, say the publishers, "an ABC which invitingly educates as it fascinates both those too young to read and those too busy to bother.  Detectable traces of Edward Lear and Lewis Caroll, but essentially original Jonathon Coudrille."

Stationery Trade Review
September, 1974
A BEASTLY COLLECTION

A Beastly Collection (Warne) is a quite unique ABC book to educate and fascinate for ages 3 to 300.  Each letter is accompanied by an intricately drawn animal (or animals) of some sort and there is an outrageously alliterative explanation for every illustration.  Many of these words are the publishers own but, having been privileged to see a set of advanced page proofs, I agree with every one of them!