Hazel the Guinea-Pig
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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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Hazel the Guinea-Pig
Illustrated by Jonathan Heale
'You can't really imagine a guinea-pig having an adventure', says the children's mother at one point in the first of these three short stories about Hazel's exploits. Well, maybe so: but Wilson does his best to convince us otherwise, with his gentle and affectionate observations of what happens in a household where a boy, a girl and their pets are given the opportunity to enjoy one another's company and to learn something of the strange ways of human and animal alike. The plots are easy to follow and speckled with quiet humour: the style is straightforward and well suited to reading aloud. Heale's black and white illustrations succeed in bringing Hazel, Fudge and Tobacco to life, each with her (or his) own individuality.
