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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.
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Browne (inventor of Piggybook and Willy the Wimp) is the master surrealist of children's picture books, and this title is one of his most enjoyable disconcerting creations. A boy waits alone in the house while his father is out fetching his mother. Joseph has been told that things are going to change, and sure enough, as he wanders around his familiar home, the objects within it dramatically shape-shift, as if they have become infected with a sinister fertility and are giving birth to secret versions of themselves. Then his parents arrive home, carrying a new baby. First published in hardback in 1990, this wonderful evocation of silent anxiety will provide a bountiful source of spellbound speculation in your classroom.
