Quentin Blake, Author . Red Fox $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-09-940006-6
A carrot-topped boy and a girl with long blond tresses recall their friend Daisy and her entourage: "Her three fat cats/ we liked to stroke/ Her raven with its/ awful croak/ Her pig that almost/ never woke." Blake's signature drawings...
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Quentin Blake, Author Henry Holt & Company $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5933-5
In this tragicomic, wordless picture book, a discarded clown doll escapes from a garbage can, and endeavors to rescue his fellow toys from the trash. ""With a few brushstrokes and scribbles of ink, Blake conveys moods, contrasts economic situations--
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Quentin Blake, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-84149-6
``A is for Apples, some green and some red / B is for Breakfast we're having in bed'' begins Blake's spirited ABC book. Each page playfully introduces a letter of the alphabet, a word beginning with that letter, and a phrase describing the word....
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Quentin Blake, Author Red Fox $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-09-925332-7
An aura of melancholy pervades this imaginative tale about two youngsters who come upon a topiary ship, brought to life with Blake's (Mrs. Armitage and the Big Wave) familiar, whimsical illustrations. Alice and her narrator brother, while on summer...
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Quentin Blake, Author Little Brown and Company $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-09934-9
The six poems in this rollicking collection invite readers to ``join in'' these characters' exuberant escapades. Author-illustrator Blake ( Quentin Blake's ABC ; The Story of the Dancing Frog ) once again captures the delight of good, noisy fun--from
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Quentin Blake, Author Little Brown and Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-09951-6
A daft professor and his frustrated cockatoos take part in a zany game of hide-and-seek sure to tickle sharp-eyed readers. Professor Dupont never strays from his regimented daily routine--from tying his tie to adjusting his glasses to greeting his...
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Quentin Blake, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-85371-7
Blake uses a catchy, singsongy text and a spirited main character--a blond boy named Simpkin--to highlight common adjectives (``weak,'' ``strong,'' ``warm,'' etc.). Scrawled, uncomplicated ink sketches, filled in with minimal but bright watercolors,
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Quentin Blake. Tate (Abrams, dist.), $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84976-304-2
With his customarily exuberant ink-and-watercolor illustrations, acclaimed author-artist Blake introduces a diverse quintet of "amazing" children with distinct supernatural abilities. Angie, with brown skin and a curly ponytail, "could see a sparrow
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Quentin Blake, Author, Quentin Blake, Illustrator . Peachtree $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56145-282-8
"This little loveykins needs someone to look after him," announces Angela Bowling when she finds a baby bird on the ground after a windstorm. The delightfully daft woman takes splendid care of the bird, whom she names Augustus: she bundles...
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Quentin Blake, Author, Quentin Blake, Illustrator Peachtree Publishers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56145-287-3
She's biked (Mrs. Armitage on Wheels), she's surfed (Mrs. Armitage and the Big Wave) and this irrepressible heroine now climbs behind the wheel of a car-of sorts. When her Uncle Cosmo buys a motorcycle, he gives his ""old car"" to Mrs. Armitage....
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Quentin Blake, Author, Quentin Blake, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4399-0
Mimes need not speak to communicate their stories; accordingly, Blake (Simpkin) chooses a toy clown to gesture his way through this wordless picture book. Despite some slapstick humor, the story belongs to the tragicomic tradition. On page one, an...
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Quentin Blake, Author, Quentin Blake, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30178-4
Blake's (Clown) meditation on the stages of childhood introduces George and Bella, a ""happy couple"" who receive a brightly wrapped package in the mail. Opening it, the seemingly clueless duo discovers ""a little pink creature, as pretty as could...
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Quentin Blake, illus. by Emma Chichester Clark. Harper, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-267067-0
Hilda Snibbs, a heroine who is a hybrid of Auntie Mame and Margaret Dumont, lives in a palatial Parisian apartment with three monkeys named Tim, Sam, and Lulu (they’re identical except for Lulu’s hair bow). Hilda dotes on them, but every time she...
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John Yeoman, Author, Quentin Blake, Author, Quentin Blake, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (20p) ISBN 978-0-395-53361-1
These four fetching farces chronicle various canine capers of this celebrated pet. The eccentric and delightfully dotty Mother Hubbard frets as her dog outsmarts and frazzles his poor mistress at every turn. When she criticizes his coat, the playful
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