After the War Was Over
Digital version – browse, print or download
BfK Newsletter
Receive the latest news & reviews direct to your inbox!
Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from the gift edition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory illustrated by Quentin Blake and with design and typography by Peter Campbell. The successful collaboration between Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake has played an important part in the popularity of Dahl’s work over the last fifteen years. Blake’s unmistakable artwork truly complements Dahl’s writing. His economical, amiable, illustrative style balances out Dahl’s often expansive language. And the liveliness, humour and pathos of the drawings offer a softer side to Dahl’s sometimes gloriously grotesque, sometimes cruel descriptions of his characters.
Thanks to Penguin Children’s Books for their help in producing this July cover which commemorates the thirty years anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s first UK publication.
PDF
Printer-friendly version
Send to friend
After the War Was Over
This book is artist and storyteller Foreman's second instalment of the memoir which began with the beautifully written and highly popular War Boy. Now that the war is over, an almost idyllic childhood on the Suffolk coast resumes. As adolescence and the rock 'n roll years approach, the narrator's interest shifts to the changes in society, but he maintains a vigilant fascination with the natural world. The observations of people and places which are related with such plain speaking are lucidity in this book find expression in drawing, and Foreman's initiation into the art world is described as the book closes. This is a fascinating yarn, whose value for historical awareness as well as for sheer entertainment is enhanced by the author's wistfully nostalgic illustrations and the inclusion in the text of a range of realia, including family photographs, cartoon strips, adverts and a record sheet of Tommy Lawton's earnings.
