Quentin Saxby Blake was born on the 16th of December 1932 ......Quentin Saxby Blake was born on the...

Quentin Saxby Blake was born on

the 16th of December 1932 in Sidcup, Kent. His father was a

civil servant and his mother

looked after the family. His brother

was eleven when he was born.

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Blake first published a drawing when

he was still at school. It was printed in Punch magazine when he was just 16.

Blake taught at the Royal College of Art in London for

over twenty years. He was the

head of the illustration

department from 1978 to 1986.


Blake has created murals for

hospitals and other public spaces.

His work decorates the corridors

in Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and Hopital Armand

Trousseau, Paris, among many other places.

Blake has won many awards for his work, including the Kate Greenaway

Medal in 1980 for Mister Magnolia. In

2013 he was knighted, becoming Sir

Quentin Blake.


When the post of Children's

Laureate was created in

1999. Blake became the first person to take the job.

Blake started working with Roald

Dahl in the 1970s and in 1979 they

published their first book together,

The Enormous Crocodile.


Blake has illustrated around 300

books. They are mostly written

by other people but he has written over 35 books himself.

Blake worked on 150 episodes

of the storytelling program

Jackanory. He illustrated

stories live on the program.


Blake has collaborated with

many well known authors,

including David Walliams, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen

and Michael Morpurgo.

In March 2018 Blake became a

Patron of the Owls Trust. His

interest in owls started when he

was a schoolboy.


In 1974 he illustrated Great Day for

Up, which was the first Dr Seuss

book that was not illustrated by Seuss himself.

During the Second World War, Blake was evacuated

to Beer in Devon to

escape the London Blitz.

He hated it.


Quentin Blake has also

illustrated books about healthy living, cookery and poetry.

In 2016, Blake published Three Little

Monkeys. It was illustrated by Emma

Chichester Clark who was his student

at the Royal College of Art.


When he was a boy, Blake

liked to read adventure stories

and annuals, including one called Chicks' Own Annual

from 1936.

From 1951 to 1953 Blake

did National Service in the

Royal Army Education

Corps, teaching English.


Blake has a house in France and

has received honours from the

French government, including becoming a Chevalier of the

Légion d'Honneur in 2015.

In 1953, Blake went to Downing

College, Cambridge University to

study English. He drew covers for

the student magazine.


Blake once told Roald Dahl that he

thought the poems in Revolting Rhymes were too rude!

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