
John Yeoman ~ Quentin Blake ~ Macmillan, 1972
With all the love for Dahl in this house of late, you can hardly worship him without giving props to his last illustrator, the wonderful Quentin Blake whose creations (equal parts grump and whimsy) match Dahl's words, frame for frame in spirit. The majority of Dahl's books (if not all, yes? no?) were illustrated or reillustrated by Blake. But even before that, Quentin penned a ton of books exclusively, Clown and Cockatoos being the boy's faves. Of the hundreds of books he's drawn over the years, there a number of titles by Yeoman, including this little fable of a miller, a cat and a google of mice (a google being the word my son uses when he wants to describe something there is a lot of.) And so the tale begins...


One thing I love about Blake's drawings are his Brillo whiskers, and they are 80-fold here. The cat's are especially frumpy and really set the mood for this somewhat depressing (but ultimately uplifting) book. Up until now, I've been letting Blake's works find me, but I think I'm gonna ad him to the eBay list. Some of them just seem too good to sit around and wait for.

Dirty Beasts
5 comments:
Love these illustrations! They're precious.
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Looking on wikipedia, it appears all of Dahl's children's books were either illustrated or reillustrated by Blake except for his first (The Gremlins) and last (The Minpins).
thanks for the info janna!
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