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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Blake once told Roald Dahl that he
thought the poems in Revolting Rhymes were too rude!
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