Roald Dahl''s Esio Trot in glorious full colour!A lavish, large format full-colour edition of this funny, tender and poignant Roald Dahl story with coloured backgrounds on every page, illustrated by Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl''s favourite illustrator.Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916. He was educated in England before going to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. With the outbreak of World War II, he became an RAF fighter pilot. He began writing for adults at the close of the war, with the encouragement of C. S. Forester. His first children''s book, James and the Giant Peach, was published in 1961 and each of his subsequent books became bestsellers. He is still the best selling children''s writer of all time.Quentin Blake is one of Britain''s most successful illustrators. His first drawings were published in Punch when he was sixteen. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl''s favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal. Besides being an illustrator he taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art and in 1999 he became the first ever Children''s Laureate! Six years later he was awarded a CBE for services to children''s literature and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year''s Honours - which means his full title is Sir Quentin Blake, although we can still all go on calling him Quentin as usual.
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Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children''s writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and total UK sales are 55 million worldwide! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children''s illustrators and it''s impossible now to think of Roald Dahl''s writings without imagining Quentin Blake''s illustrations.
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