![]() ![]() 'You ought to know about the treasure, Kay. `Two of the greatest children's books ever written' - The Times on Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk. ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. In 1999 he was appointed the first ever Children's Laureate. Now in his 70s he is recognised as 'a national institution'. He won the 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and in 2004 he was awarded the 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres'. His books have won numerous prizes and awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award and the international Bologna Ragazzi Prize. He has also created much-loved characters of his own. ![]() He is known for his collaboration with writers such as Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen, and, most famously, Roald Dahl. Quentin Blake's first drawings were published in Punch when he was 16. He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, two novels Captain Margaret and Multitude and Solitude and a great deal of memorable poetry, including "The Everlasting Mercy", and "Sea-Fever", from his anthology Saltwater Ballads. John Edward Masefield (1878-1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death. ![]()
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