Angelo: Celebrate Quentin Blakes 90th Birthday
By (Author) Quentin Blake
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox Picture Books
1st July 2010
1st July 2010
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
32
Width 230mm, Height 285mm, Spine 4mm
201g
A marvellous story about helping each other out, brilliantly illustrated by Quentin Blake... Angelo and his family travel round the country playing music, singing songs and performing marvellous balancing tricks- Angelo can even dance on a rope! So when he meets Angelina, who is sad and lonely and trapped in her mean uncle's house, Angelo knows just how to help ...
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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.