Granny the Pag
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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.
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Granny the Pag
Pags, in case you didn't know, are special people - 'the sort of people who makes all the really important things happen' - and Catriona's granny Polish refugee, retired psychiatrist, cigarette-smoking, Greek island holidaying, Harley-Davidson riding Dame Halina Lubinorska is definitely a Pag. Catriona has been brought up by her whilst her feckless parents have continued their theatrical careers which now see them starring in a popular TV soap. When Mum decides she wants Cat back to complete the show-biz smart home they have just acquired, Cat decides to take action - well, you would resist living with a woman who called you Precious-kins. Told in the first person, the spunky heroine has a nice line in ironic asides and the book carries a number of important messages about families and relationships.
