Life of Birds by Quentin Blake
I seem to have difficulty keeping birds out of my books, from my illustrated version of Aristophanes' The Birds to John Yeoman's Featherbrains to Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger...' Quentin Blake's appointment as the first Children's Laureate acknowledged half a century spent bringing characters - his own as well as those of Russell Hoban, Roald Dahl, Joan Aitken and dozens of others - to life on the page. The pictures in The Life of Birds are bigger, broader and more sombre, but no less lively than his much-loved and hugely admired children's book illustrations. Here Quentin Blake follows in the path of the great illustrators, such as Daumier and Lear, and of fabulists like Aesop and La Fontaine. Wonderfully acute observations of how birds behave become a commentary - kindly, but penetrating - on human nature.
Quentin Blake was born in 1932 in Sidcup, Kent. He read English at Downing College Cambridge and Education at the London University Institute of Education; he also attended life classes at Chelsea School of Art. His first children's book was published in 1960. Since then he has illustrated over 250 books by many writers; notably John Yeoman, Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen and most famously, Roald Dahl. He is also well known for his own picture books such as Clown and Zagazoo. Quentin Blake was a tutor at the Royal College of Art from 1965 to 1988, and for eight of those years was head of the Illustration department. He was made an OBE in 1988. In 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In 2002 he was made a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and the Quentin Blake Europe School in Berlin was named for him. He was also awarded the IBBY Hans Andersen Award for Illustration. He was appointed a CBE in 2005.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385609852 |
| ISBN 10 | 038560985X |
| Title | Life of Birds |
| Author | Quentin Blake |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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