quentin blake illustrations charlie and the chocolate factory

In 1999 he was chosen to be the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2005 he was awarded a CBE for services to children's literature. He has won many awards and prizes, including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal.

Quentin Blake has illustrated over three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. His first drawings were published in Punch magazine when he was sixteen and still at school. Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. Roald Dahl died in 1990 at the age of seventy-four. His books, which are read by children the world over, include The BFG and The Witches, winner of the 1983 Whitbread Award. Roald Dahl is one of the most successful and well known of all children's writers.

He began writing after a 'monumental bash on the head' sustained as an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. He was educated in England and went on to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. Skin and Other Stories The Vicar of Nibbleswicke The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories Rhyme Stew The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Magic Fingerĭirty Beasts (with Quentin Blake) The Enormous Crocodile (with Quentin Blake) The Minpins (with Patrick Benson) Revolting Rhymes (with Quentin Blake) Teenage fiction Winner of the Millennium Children's Book Award (UK, 2000) and nominated as one of the nation's favourite books in the BBC's Big Read campaign, 2003īoy: Tales of Childhood Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny the Champion of the World George's Marvellous Medicine Going Solo 'A book that requires no introduction as it is probably Dahl's best-known and most-read creation and deservedly so. 'Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake have made an important and lasting contribution to children's literature' - Guardian 'One of the most popular children's books of all times' Some reviews of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Quentin blake illustrations charlie and the chocolate factory