New Quentin Blake museum to provide a London home for a booming art form
The centre – featuring the work of acclaimed artists – will be the only permanent place in Britain to learn about the history of illustration
February 2023
Roald Dahl threatened publisher with ‘enormous crocodile’ if they changed his words
Conversation with Francis Bacon emerges amid the row over updating controversial language in the children’s author’s books
December 2021
Quentin Blake: ‘I’m not so committed to cheering everybody up, you know’
He may be best known for bringing children’s books by Roald Dahl and Michael Rosen to vivid life, but a new documentary reveals the more serious side to illustrator’s career
April 2021
Children’s laureates campaign for £100m a year to fix primary school libraries
Current laureate Cressida Cowell leads demands to ringfence funds to renew ‘deteriorating’ facilities that fail to appeal to students
December 2020
Bookish fun on TV and radio to enjoy this Christmas
There is plenty for everyone to enjoy, including Zog and the Flying Doctors, a Bridget Jones documentary and an Upstart Crow Christmas special
February 2020
Quentin Blake: ‘Spend time with children? Good God, no'
The writer and illustrator talks about bringing some of the most cherished children’s characters to life, his work with Roald Dahl and Michael Rosen – and the tiny weed that inspired his latest book
December 2018
At last, a partner for the Snowman who has melted hearts for 40 years
Illustrators including Quentin Blake and Shirley Hughes celebrate the Raymond Briggs Christmas classic – and one adds a touch of romance
November 2018
Roald Dahl’s nature journal My Year republished after decades out of print
The author’s final book records his observations of the Buckinghamshire countryside alongside memories of childhood hijinks
October 2018
Beyond red lines: illustrators' Europe – in pictures
Names in the news
Matilda is a heroine for our time, thanks to Quentin Blake
Rebecca Nicholson
Matilda at 30: 'She would have been prime minister for a couple of years by now'
Matilda, stay young: why seeing Roald Dahl’s hero at 30 is bittersweet
Cressida Cowell
September 2018
Matilda’s new adventures at 30: astrophysicist, explorer or bookworm
To mark three decades since Roald Dahl’s heroine first appeared, her illustrator, Quentin Blake, has imagined her life now
June 2018
Quentin Blake to auction 'joyful' mother and baby watercolours
Pictures from illustrator’s personal collection will be auctioned for charity in July
April 2018
Michael Morpurgo, Quentin Blake and Jacqueline Wilson join Authors4Oceans
A campaign to prevent the pollution of the Earth’s oceans with plastic, begun by Lauren St John, now has 50 children’s writers involved
March 2018
Book clinic
Book clinic: what titles might help children deal with grief?
The Bookseller’s children’s and YA previews editor selects three titles offering a variety of perspectives on bereavement
December 2017
Children's book roundup
Picture books for children reviews – tinselly tales for a child’s Christmas
From Quentin Blake’s Scrooge to Judith Kerr’s new cat Katinka and beyond, picture book present ideas abound…
November 2017
Stars donate handmade book covers for House of Illustration charity auction
Fundraiser includes Peter Blake’s vision of Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Neil Gaiman’s Fahrenheit 451, Peter Capaldi’s Metamorphosis and more
September 2017
A life in ...
Michael Rosen: ‘Realising that poetry was performance was my eureka moment’
The writer and broadcaster on a career ranging from Émile Zola to children’s poetry with wee-wee jokes
July 2017
Horrid Henry artist Tony Ross named UK libraries' most borrowed illustrator
In the first ranking of its kind, the Public Lending Right showed Ross clocking up more than 1m loans last year
