Revolting Rhymes

by
Roald Dahl
Illustrated by Quentin Blake

This is an hilarious collection of some well-loved fairy tales, cleverly reinvented by Roald Dahl.

When the giant 'smells an Englishman' in Jack and the Beanstalk, the hapless youth gets in trouble from his mum for not washing more often.

The heroine of Little Red Riding Hood pulls out a pistol and shoots the wolf dead before using his fur to make herself a coat. Then she skips off to rescue a poor little pig in The Three Little Pigs.

A not-so-vulnerable Cinderella demands to go to the 'disco' at the Palace and ends up running around at midnight in her underwear!

All these terrific stories are written in verse and are gorgeously decorated by Quentin Blake's glorious illustrations.

Publisher: Puffin

Quentin Blake

Children's Laureate 1999-2001
Quentin Blake was born in 1932 and read English at Cambridge, before attending Chelsea Art College. He has won many major prizes for illustration, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (1980) and the Red House Children's Book Award (1981) for Mister Magnolia. He is also the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and in 1990 was voted 'The Illustrator's Illustrator' by Observer Magazine. A tireless promoter of children's literature – and a long-time collaborator with roald Dahl – Quentin Blake was awarded the OBE in 1988 and in 2005 he was awarded a CBE for services to Children's Literature. In the most recent New Year’s Honours list he has been knighted.

Quentin was the inaugural Children's Laureate (1999-2001), an experience he recorded in his book Laureate's Progress. During his time in the role, he celebrated children's books and children's book illustration with a range of projects and exhibitions, and conceived the idea for the House of Illustration, the world's first centre dedicated to the art of illustration in all its forms.

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