found: Author's Gumdrop, 1967, c1966:t.p. (illustrated by Val Biro)
found: Under the greenwood tree, 1966:t.p. (B.S. Biro; illustrator)
found: The terrible trumpet, 1966:t.p. (B. Biro; illustrator)
found: Tommy and the yellow submarine, 1971:t.p. (Biro; drawings)
found: Val Biro's WWW pages, Mar. 20, 2007(b. Balint Stephen Biro, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 6, 1921; children's author, artist and illustrator)
found: Guardian (online), viewed July 30, 2014(Val Biro; b. Balint Stephen Biro, Oct. 6, 1921, Budapest; sent to London to study at the Central School of Art, 1939; d. July 4, 2014; children's author and illustrator who created Gumdrop, the adventurous vintage car; cover artist for hundreds of fiction and non-fiction titles from 1944 onwards; also had a 21-year spell illustrating for Radio times; lived in Bosham, West Sussex)