Most Popular Books by Quentin Blake

Corky and Loopy are two perfectly normal girls. They like chocolate biscuits, fizzy drinks, screaming at each other and drawing. But they are also a little bit special...because they are angels. One day they visit Sid, a pavement artist. Sid is sad because he wants to take part in the big drawing competition but can't work out how the judges will ever get to see his work. Corky and Loopy decide to help and give him a very special pencil from their collection. So begins a bright and colourful adventure.

Relates the adventures of Great Aunt Gertrude and her dancing frog as they travel the world and gain fame and fortune.

"Dear Anastasia, Because I am buying a new motorcycle, I won't need my old car anymore. I would like you to have it as a present. It's parked outside. Here are the keys. With love, Your Uncle Cosmo." Thus begins Mrs. Armitage's exciting road adventure. There are many surprises along the way until all that is left is Mrs. Armitage, her faithful dog Breakspear, and the bare frame of the car. But the ever-resourceful Mrs. Armitage remains undaunted. And when she finally meets up with her uncle and his motorcycle cronies, Mrs. Armitage is rightfully honored as the Queen of the Road. From best-selling author-illustrator Quentin Blake—Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom and winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal—comes this charming story of an indomitable and charmingly off-beat woman who finds liberation and new friends out on the open road.

Ars Armitage arrives on the beach with her surfboard and her faithful dog Breakspear, and paddles out to sea to wait for the Big Wave. But, of course, Mrs Armitage can't be satisfied with just an ordinary surfboard and she is soon adding a hilarious variety of gadgets and contraptions. And when the Big Wave finally arrives, Mrs Armitage certainly surfs with style!

Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He lives in a labyrinth of skyscrapers connected by water chutes, lifts and railways, and littered with oil lakes, walls of sweets and towers of treacle. He and his followers amuse themselves by exploring his home and falling into adventures with its inhabitants, a collection of lunatics, dwarfs and ghosts. Uncle also frequently fights with the inhabitants of neighbouring Badfort, among them the repulsive Jellytussles (a quivering blob) and the cowardly Hitmouse. 'A classic in the great English nonsense tradition' Observer

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice. "The Witches" is a 1984 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year.

New editions of classic texts with stunning illustrations from Quentin Blake 'Two of the greatest children's books ever written' - THE TIMES

Poems of the absurd accompanied by the illustrator Quentin Blake.

The baby arrives in a brown paper parcel to the surprise of his parents. They name him Zagazoo. As he grows up he changes into a number of different things- a vulture, an elephant, a warthog, a small dragon. . . Suddenly he is a perfectly mannered desirable young man who falls in love and decides to get married. His parents are delighted but when Zagazoo comes to tell them the news, he finds they have changed into a pair of pelicans who endlessly clack their beaks. As Quentin Blake says'Isn't life amazing!'

Dip inside the covers & find a wonderfully varied mixture of partygoers whose books Quentin Blake, the first British Children's Laureate, remembers with particular enjoyment. This is a very personal feast with samples of rich fare from 50 picture books & novels leading you on to explore further -- to greet old friends & to discover new ones. Includes excerpts from the books with original black & white illustrations.

Matilda is a genius. Unfortunately, her family treats her like a dolt. Her crooked car-salesman father and loud, bingo-obsessed mother think Matilda's only talent is as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in their miserable lives. But it's not long before the sweet and sensitive child decides to fight back. Faced with practical jokes of sheer brilliance, her parents don't stand a chance. Book jacket.