Cockatoos

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Can you find Professor Dupont's cheeky cockatoos! A laugh-out loud counting book, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake! Can you find Professor Dupont's cheeky cockatoos! A laugh-out loud counting book, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake! Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos - but they're always just one step ahead of him! 'Cockatoos must be the funniest and subtlest counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll' - THE GUARDIAN "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.

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For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly Cockatoos -- Gwynneth Bailey * TES *
A wonderfully enjoyable story * Daily Mail *
Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll * Guardian *
There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this * Books for your Children *

Author Bio

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In the 2013 New Year's Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.