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Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most renowned illustrators. Born in the suburbs of London in 1932, he read English at Cambridge before becoming a full-time freelance illustrator. He began his career working for magazines such as The Spectator and Punch. For many years he taught at the Royal College of Art, where he was head of the Illustration Department from 1978 to 1986. He became the very first Children's Laureate in 1999 and was made a CBE in 2005.

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	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Average rating: (read by 270 members) A lavish full-colour 40th anniversary gift edition of this bestselling story with coloured backgrounds on every page, illustrated by Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator.
	Matilda by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Average rating: (read by 208 members) Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
	The BFG by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Average rating: (read by 170 members) The BFG is a big, friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed one dark night. Fortunately, this giant really is friendly, but his countrymen in the land of giants are inveterate child-eaters. Can the child enlist the aid of his kidnapper in stopping the nightly massacre?