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Quentin Saxby Blake

Male : Book illustrator & Writer. The 1st Children's Laureate
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Sidcup, Kent

Date of Birth : 1932

Other Work : Head of Illustration Dept at Royal College of Art from 1978

Education : Chislehurst & Sidcup GS & Downing College, Cambridge Univ
Joan AIKEN : Arabel's Raven (1972)
The Escaped Black Mamba
(1973)
The Bread Bin
(1974)
Tales of Arabel's Raven
(1974 Cape/BBC)
Mortimer's Tie
(1976)
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur
(1979)
The Spiral Staircase
(1979)
Arabel and Mortimer
(1980 Cape/BBC) - 3 books
Mortimer's Portrait on Glass
(1982)
Mortimer's Cross
(1983 Cape/BBC) - 3 books
Mortimer Says Nothing
(1985 Cape)
Mortimer and Arabel
(1992 BBC)
The Winter Sleepwalker
(1994 Cape)
A Handful of Gold
(1995 Cape)
Ted ALLAN : Willie the Squowse
(1977 Cape)
ARISTOPHANES
(Trans Dudley Fitts) : The Birds (1971 Lion & Unicorn Press) - 400
Hilaire BELLOC : Algernon & Other Cautionary Tales
(1991 Cape) - boards
Cautionary verses
(1993 Cape)
Marjorie and Antony BILBOW : Give a Dog a Good Name
(1967 Hutchinson)
Quentin BLAKE : Patrick
(1968 Cape)
Jack and Nancy
(1969 Cape)
Your Animal Poems
(1969 Gordon Fraser)
A Band of Angels
(1969 Gordon Fraser)
Angelo
(1970 Cape)
Snuff
(1973 Cape)
Lester and the Unusual Pet
(1975 Collins)
Lester at the Seaside
(1975 Collins)
The Adventures of Lester
(1977 Collins)
Mr Magnolia
(1980 Cape £3.50)
Quentin Blake's Nursery Rhyme Book
(1983 Cape)
The Story of the Dancing Frog
(1984 Cape) - No d/w issued
Mrs Armitage on Wheels
(1987 Cape) - No d/w issued
Quentin Blake's ABC
(1989 Cape)
All Join In
(1990 Cape £6.95) - KURT MASCHLER PRIZE AWARD
Cockatoos
(1992 Cape) - boards
Simpkin
(1993 Cape) - boards
Quentin Blake Book of Nonsense Verse
(1994 Viking) - boards
Clown
(1995 Cape £8.99)
Mrs Armitage and the Big Wave
(1997 Cape £9.99)
Ten Frogs
(1997 Pavilion £7.99) - boards
The Green Ship
(1998 Cape £9.99)
Zagazoo
(1998 Cape £9.99)
Fantastic Daisy Artichoke
(1999)
Ellen BLANCE & Ann COOK : Monster Books
(12 titles 1976-8 Longman)
Elizabeth BOWEN : The Good Tiger
(1970 Cape)
(Ed) Sara BREWSON: Of Quarks, Quasars and Other Quirks (1977 Crowell US)
(Ed) Jane BRITTON : The Oxford Book of Stories for Juniors (1964-6 OUP) - 3 vols
Geoffrey BROUGHTON : Listen and Read with Peter and Molly
(1968)
Success with English - The Penguin Course
(1969 Penguin)
Peter and Molly
(1972)
Peter and Molly's Revision Book
(1975)
Jeff BROWN : A Lamp for the Lambchops
(1985 Methuen)
Betsy BYARS : After the Goat Man
(1975 Bodley Head) - Quentin Blake boards
Patrick CAMPBELL : Come Here till I tell You
(1960 Hutchinson)
Constantly in Pursuit
(1962 Hutchinson)
How to Become a Scratch Golfer
(1963 Blond)
Brewing Up in the Basement
(1963 Hutchinson)
Rough Husbandry
(1965 Hutchinson)
The P-P-Penguin Patrick Campbell
(1965 Penguin)
A Feast of True Fandangles
(1979 W H Allen)
Natalie Savage CARLSON : Pigeon of Paris
(1972 Blackie)
Lewis CARROLL : The Hunting of the Snark
(1976 Folio Society)
Miguel de CERVANTES : Don Quixote de la Mancha
(1995 Folio Society)
Charles CONNELL : Aphrodisiacs in Your Garden
(1965 Barker)
Ruth CRAFT : Play School Play Ideas
(1971 BBC)
Rupert CROFT-COOKE : Tales of a Wicked Uncle
(1963 Cape)
Thomas CORDDRY : Kibby's Big feat
(1970 Follett US)
Marcus CUNLIFFE : The Ages of Man - From Savage to Sewage
(1971 Heritage US)
(Ed) Bronnie CUNNINGHAM : The Puffin Joke Book (1974) Puffin
Funny Business
(1978 Puffin)
Roald DAHL : The Enormous Crocodile
(1978 Cape)
The Twits
(1980 Cape)
George's Marvellous Medicine
(1981 Cape)
Revolting Rhymes
(1982 Cape) - boards
The BFG
(1982 Cape)
Dirty Beasts
(1983 Cape) - boards
The Witches
(1983 Cape)
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
(1985 Cape) - boards
Matilda
(1988 Cape)
Rhyme Stew
(1989 Cape)
Esio Trot
(1990 Cape)
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
(1991 Century)
The Dahl Diary
(1991 Penguin)
Rald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety
(1991 British Rlwys Board) - booklet
My Year
(1993 Cape)
Danny the Champion of the World
(1994 Cape)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(1995 Viking)
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
(1995 Viking)
James and the Giant Peach
(1995 Viking)
The Magic Finger
(1995 Viking)
Fantastic Mr Fox
(1996 Viking)
The Roald Dahl Treasury
(1997 Cape £19.99)
Felicity DAHL & Josie FISON : Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes
(1994 Cape) - boards
Cyrano DE BERGERAC : Voyages to the Sun & the Moon
(1991 Folio Society)
Adele DE LEEUW : Horseshoe Harry and the Whale
(1976 Parents Magazine Press, US) - boards
Charles DICKENS : A Christmas Carol
(1995 Pavilion)
DR SEUSS : Great Day for Up !
(1974 Random House) (1975 Collins) - boards
Gillian EDWARDS : Hogmanay and Tiffany
(1970 Bles)
Carol Ann DUFFY : Meeting Midnight
(1995 Prospero Poets)
EZO : My Son-in-Law the Hippopotamus
(1962 Abelard)
Sid FLEISCHMAN : McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm
(1972 Chatto & Windus)
Here Comes McBroom !
(1976 Chatto & Windus)
McBroom and the Great Race
(1981 Chatto & Windus)
Helen Jill FLETCHER : Put on your Thinking Cap
(1968 Abelard)
Puzzles and Quizzles
(1971 Abelard)
Nils-Olof FRANZEN : Agaton Sax and the Diamond Thieves
(1965 All Deutsch)
Agaton Sax and the Scotland Yard Mystery
(1969)
Agaton Sax and the Max brothers
(1970)
Agaton Sax and the Criminal Doubles
(1971)
Agaton Sax and the Colussus of Rhodes
(1972)
Agaton Sax and the London Computer Plot
(1973)
Agaton Sax and the League of Silent Exploders
(1974)
Agaton Sax and the Haunted House
(1975)
Agaton Sax and the Big Rig
(1976)
Agaton Sax and Lispington's Grandfather Clock
(1978)
(Ed) Gordon FRASER : Your Animal Book (1969)
Clement FREUD : Grimble
(1974 Puffin)
Jonathan GATHORNE-HARDY : Cyril Bonham v Madam Big
(1981 Cape)
Cyril Bonhamy and the Great Train Robbery
(1983 Cape)
Cyril Bonhamy and Operation Ping
(1984 Cape)
Cyril of the Apes
(1987 Cape) - boards
Stella GIBBONS : Cold Comfort Farm
(1977 Folio Society)
Dix GRENOUILLES : Ten Frogs
(1997 Pavilion £7.99)
J B S HALDANE : My Friend Mr Leakey
(1971 Penguin)
Willis HALL : The Incredible Kidnapping
(1975 Heinemann)
Kidnapped at Christmas
(1975)
Bill HARTLEY
(ed by Roy McCarthy) : Motoring and the Motorist (1965 BBC)
John HEDGCOE : Breakfast with Dolly
(1995 Collins & Brown)
Thomas L HIRSCH : Puzzles for Pleasure And Leisure
(1966 Abelard)
Russell HOBAN : How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
(1974 Cape)
A Near Thing for Captain Najork
(1975 Cape)
The Twenty Elephant Restaurant
(1980 Cape) - boards
Ace Dragon Ltd
(1980 Cape) - boards
The Marzipan Pig
(1986 Cape) - boards
The Rain Door
(1986 Gollancz)
Monsters
(1989 Gollancz) - boards
P HOLTON & J HOLTON : Quote & Unquote
(1970 Arcadia Press)
Victor HUGO : The Huncback of Notre Dame
(1998 Folio Society)
Evan HUNTER : The Wonderful Button
(1961 Abelard)
Norman HUNTER : Wizards are a Nuisance
(1973 BBC pb)
Dick KING-SMITH : Alphabeasts
(1990 Gollancz)
Rudyard KIPLING : How the Camel Got His Hump
(1984 Macmillan) - boards
Frances KNOWLES & Brian THOMPSON : Eating
(1973 Longman)
Edward KOREL : Listen and I'll Tell You
(1962 Blackie)
(Ed) Tony LACEY : Up with Skool ! (1981 Puffin)
Fred LOADS, Alan GEMMELL, & Bill SOWERBUTTS : Gardeners' Question Time
(1964 and 1966 BBC)
D MACKAY, B THOMPSON & P SCHAUB : Doctors and Nurses
(1970 Longman)
The Birthday Party
(1970 Longman)
Margaret MAHY : Non-Stop Nonsense
(1977 Dent)
The Great Piratical Rumbustification
(1978 Dent)
Mrs Armitage on Wheels
(1987 Cape)
J P MARTIN : Uncle
(1964 Cape)
Uncle Cleans Up
(1965 Cape)
Uncle and His Detective
(1966 Cape)
Uncle and the Treacle Trouble
(1967 Cape)
Uncle and Claudius the Camel
(1969 Cape)
Uncle and the Battle for Badgertown
(1973 Cape)
(Ed) John MOORE : The Boys' Country Book (1961 Collins)
Stephen MOOSER : 101 Black Cats
(1975 Scholastic US)
John MORETON : Punky - Mouse for a Day
(1962 Faber)
Ogden NASH : Custard and Company
(1979 Kestrel)
(Ed) Ulick O'CONNOR : The Campbell Companion (1987 Pavilion)
George ORWELL : Animal Farm
(1984 Folio Society)
Frances Gray PATTON : Good Morning, Miss Dove
(1961 Penguin)
Sylvia PLATH : The Bed Book
(1976 Faber)
Ennis REES : Riddles, Riddles Everywhere
(1964 Abelard)
Pun Fun
(1965 Abelard)
Tiny Tall Tales
(1967 Abelard)
Gillygaloos and Gollywhoppers
(1969 Abelard)
James REEVES : Mr Horrox and the Gratch
(1969 Abelard)
Seymour REIT : The Worried Ghost
(1976 Scholastic US)
Tim RICE & Andrew LLOYD WEBBER : Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
(1982 Pavilion Books)
H P RICKMAN : Living with Technology
(1969 Hodder & Stoughton)
Michael ROSEN : Mind your own Business
(1974 Deutsch)
Wouldn't You Like to Know
(1977 Deutsch) - boards
The Bakerloo Flea
(1979 Longman)
You Can't Catch Me
(1981 Deutsch)
Quick, Let's Get Out of Here
(1983 Deutsch)
Don't Put Mustard in the Custard
(1985 Deutsch)
Scrapbooks
(1986 Walker) - boards
Peter ROWAN : Ask Dr Pete
(1986 Cape) - boards
Beryl RUTH : Home Economics
(1966 Heinemann)
Richard SCHICKEL : The Gentle Knight
(1964 Abelard)
R C SCRIVEN : The Thingummyjig
(1973)
Sylvia SHERRY : Elephants Have Right of Way
(1995 Cape)
Joan TATE : The Next-Doors
(1964 Heinemann)
Lucy
(1964 Heinemann)
Bits and Pieces
(1967 Heinemann)
Luke's Garden
(1967 Heinemann)
Harwood THOMSON : The Witch's Cat
(1971 Blackie)
Robert TIBBER : Aristide
(1966 Hutchinson)
Miles TOMALIN : The Energy Men
(1968 Hodder & Stoughton)
Mark TWAIN : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1983 Puffin)
Jules VERNE : Around the World in 80 Days
(1966 Chatto & Windus)
Carole WARD : Play School Ideas 2
(1977 BBC)
Julia WATSON : The Armada Lion Book of Young Verse
(1974)
Evelyn WAUGH : Black Mischief
(1981 Folio Society)
Scoop
(1983 Folio Society)
Rosemary WEIR : Albert the Dragon
(1961 Abelard)
Further Adventures of Albert the Dragon
(1964 Abelard)
Albert the Dragon and the Centaur
(1968 Abelard)
John YEOMAN : A Drink of Water & Other Stories
(1960 Faber)
The Boy Who Sprouted Antlers
(1961 Faber)
Alphabet Soup
(1969 Faber)
The Bear's Winter House
(1969 Blackie)
The Bear's Water Picnic
(1970 Blackie)
Sixes and Sevens
(1971 Blackie)
Mouse Trouble
(1972 Hamish Hamilton)
Beatrice and Vanessa
(1974 Hamish Hamilton)
The Puffin Book of Improbable Records
(1975 Penguin)
The Young Performing Horse
(1977 Hamish Hamilton)
The Wild Washerwomen
(1979 Hamish Hamilton)
Rumbelow's Dance
(1982 Hamish Hamilton)
Crash ! The Waldo and Wanda Book of Practical Hints
(1984 Magnet)
The Hermit and the Bear
(1984 Deutsch)
Our Village
(1988 Walker)
Old Mother Hubbard's Dog
(1989 Walker) - boards
The World's Laziest Duck
(1991 Macmillan) - boards
Featherbrains
(1993 Hamish Hamilton)
The Singing Tortoise
(1993 Gollancz) - boards
The Family Album
(1993 Hamish Hamilton)
The Do-it-Yourself House that Jack Built
(1994 Hamish Hamilton) - boards
Mr Nodd's Ark
(1995 Hamish Hamilton) - boards
The Prince's Gifts
(1997 Pavilion £12.99)
Up With Birds
(1998 Hamish Hamilton £10.99)
Helen YOUNG : What Difference Does it Make, Danny ?
(1980 Deutsch)
A Band of Angels
(1969 Gordon Fraser)
Quote and Unquote
(1970 Arcadia Press)
Nathan ZIMELMAN : The First Elephant Comes to Ireland
(1969 Follett US)

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