As a popular children's author, Serraillier was invited to Children's Literature Summer Camps for members of the Puffin Book Club, run by Colony Holidays (predecessor to ATE Superweeks), along with other popular children's authors such as Joan Aiken and Clive King. Later life In 1948, Serraillier and his wife, Anne Margaret Rogers, founded the New Windmill Series for Heinemann Educational Books. They lived and worked in an old flint cottage at Cocking near Chichester, in West Sussex. He remained a co-editor until the onset of Alzheimer's disease in the early 1990s. The illness contributed to his death on 28 November 1994, at the age of 82. They had three daughters and a son. Papers The Papers of Ian Serraillier held at the University of Reading largely comprise manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs, including Fight for Freedom, The Clashing Rocks, The Cave of Death, Havelock the Dane, They Raced for Treasure, Flight to Adventure, and The Silver Sword. They also contain correspondence with publishers, other business and literary correspondence, notebooks with poems, ideas and story outlines, rejection letters, publishers' agreements, press cuttings, research material, lecture notes and typescripts, obituaries, etc. Bibliography Poetry Three New Poets: Roy McFadden, Alex Comfort, Ian Serraillier (1942, Grey Walls Press) The Weaver Birds (1944, Macmillan) — illustrated by Serraillier Thomas and the Sparrow (1946, Oxford University Press) The Monster Horse (1950, Oxford University Press) The Ballad of Kon-Tiki and Other Verses (1952, Oxford University Press) Everest Climbed (1955, Oxford University Press) Poems and Pictures (1958, Heinemann) A Puffin Quartet of Poets: Eleanor Farjeon, James Reeves, E. V. Rieu, Ian Serraillier (1958, Penguin) — edited by Eleanor Graham The Windmill Book of Ballads: Beowulf the Warrior and Other Poems (1962, Heinemann) I'll Tell You a Tale: A Collection of Poems and Ballads (1973, Longman) — illustrated by Charles Keeping and Renate Meyer How Happily She Laughs and Other Poems (1976, Longman) The Visitor Fiction They Raced for Treasure (1946, Cape) — later issued in a "simplified education edition" as Treasure Ahead (1954, Heinemann) Flight to Adventure (1947, Cape) — later issued in a "simplified education edition" as Mountain Rescue (1955, Heinemann) Captain Bounsaboard and the Pirates (1949, Cape) There’s No Escape (1950, Cape) — later issued in an "education edition" (1952, Heinemann) Belinda and the Swans (1952, Cape) Jungle Adventure (1953, Heinemann) — based on story by R. M. Ballantyne The Adventures of Dick Varley (1954, Heinemann)