'Blake is beyond brilliant. He can tell wonderful stories without a single word. I've never met a child who didn't love Quentin Blake.'

Melanie  McDonagh,  Daily  Telegraph

Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful illustrators and children's authors. His first drawings were published in Punch when he was 16. He has illustrated over 300 books with writers such as, Michael Rosen, Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, John Yeoman and, most famously of all, Roald Dahl. Quentin Blake writes and illustrates his own books as well, creating such characters as Mister Magnolia, Mrs Armitage and Clown.

For many years he taught at the Royal College of Art, where he was head of the Illustration Department from 1978 to 1986. His books have won numerous prizes and awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award and the international Bologna Ragazzi Prize. He won the 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the highest international recognition given to creators of children's books. In 2004 Quentin Blake was awarded the 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres' by the French Government for services to literature. According to The Guardian, he was 'already a national institution' when he was appointed the first Children's Laureate in 1999. 

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