Quentin Blake's ABC

by Quentin Blake

A zany rhyming text complements lively, humorous illustrations in this wonderful ABC book.

Rhyme has often been used as an aid to learning but Quentin Blake’s text is so clever and appealing that youngsters will enjoy this book for its own sake. Mixing together both contemporary and traditional elements, it offers up many opportunities for interaction and discussion.

Learning your alphabet has never been so much fun as with this brilliantly funny book from a multiple award-winning author-illustrator.

Publisher: Red Fox

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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