Fur ¦ 'Quack! said the billy-goat
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This issue’s cover is from the gift edition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory illustrated by Quentin Blake and with design and typography by Peter Campbell. The successful collaboration between Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake has played an important part in the popularity of Dahl’s work over the last fifteen years. Blake’s unmistakable artwork truly complements Dahl’s writing. His economical, amiable, illustrative style balances out Dahl’s often expansive language. And the liveliness, humour and pathos of the drawings offer a softer side to Dahl’s sometimes gloriously grotesque, sometimes cruel descriptions of his characters.
Thanks to Penguin Children’s Books for their help in producing this July cover which commemorates the thirty years anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s first UK publication.
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Fur
Charlotte Voake
'Quack! said the billy-goat
Barbara Firth
These two popular books are now reissued in hardback as well as paperback which is welcome when I look at the well loved (euphemism for - so well read they are tatty) paperback copies that are in class libraries in the younger classes in our school. Fur has been a real favourite with many children over recent years. It is the story of the cat's search for the right place to curl up in. The book builds to the charming climax with the arrival of kittens - more fur! Mark's text, told in six short sentences in a large typeface, uses language inimitably and is complemented by Voake's gentle ink and wash illustrations.
'Quack!' said the billy-goat is an amusing picture book which has a zany nonsense poem as its text in which a farmyard is turned upside down. Firth's exuberant illustrations provide us with a 'book that zings' as one of the Reception class reviewers insisted.