Into the Castle
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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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Into the Castle
Illustrated by John Bendall-Brunello
Tension mounts as three children plus horse and dog creep across the moat, beyond the drawbridge and down into the dark, dank depths of the dungeon where once languished - or does he still? - the dreaded monster of long ago. The suspense builds slowly as the journey is made and the inevitable encounter with the monster takes place. The sense of relief after the heart-thumping dash back out of the castle and away to safety is neatly shattered by the monster's words at the final turn of the page. The perfectly controlled pacing and tension in the rhyming text are mirrored in each amusing double page illustration. Infinitely re-readable.
