He gained another teaching diploma at the Institute of Education before working at the Royal College of Art. I love that the pictures alone evoke an emotional response and that we shared the telling of the tale in our own words as we followed the illustrations.

Quentin Blake’s Clown: Everything you need to know about

Quentin Blake is probably best known as the illustrator for all Roald Dahl’s books including The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but Quentin is an author as well as an illustrator and his picture books, of which this is one are truly stunning and will bring much laughter and smiles to both parent and child in the nursery at bedtime. Blake is one of the world’s most beloved children’s illustrators, known for his illustrations for novels written by Roald Dahl. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Clown by Quentin Blake is a wordless book about a stuffed clown who comes alive after being thrown into the trash with his stuffed animal friends, and has an adventure trying to find a home for himself and his discarded friends. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. Quentin Blake’s illustrations effectively told the story about a small toy clown trying to find a new home for the other toys and I loved how the illustrations told the story such as having an illustration of the clown running around the city or an illustration of the clown being chased by a large yellow dog. When I was able to focus on the story of the book, I became a bit more open to the plot, and indeed it was very cute.

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Ever since I read It by Stephen King (and even worse, saw Tim Curry portraying Pennywise the clown on the made-for-tv miniseries), I have been petrified of clowns. The six poems in this rollicking collection invite readers to ``join in'' these characters' exuberant escapades. Given what can be done with computers, it must take an iron will to remember that less is more, and that the viewer’s imagination will do more than any CGI. He taught at the Royal College of Art for over twenty years, and was head of the Illustration department from 1978 to 1986.My son is also growing up with the movies (fyi- a 4th movie is in the works) and as an only child, his toys are even more loved than mine were. It tells the story of a toy clown, a kind of Pierrot in high-top trainers, who is discarded by his old owners and ends up on a wild adventure.