![]() ![]() His artistic development during his school years was helped by contact with the painter and cartoonist Alfred Jackson, the husband of Blake's Latin teacher, who encouraged his first submissions to Punch, resulting in his first publication at the age of 16. He attended Holy Trinity Lamorbey Church of England Primary School and Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, where his English teacher, J. Blake was evacuated to the West Country during the Second World War. His father was a civil servant, and his mother a housewife. ![]() Early life īlake was born in 1932 in Sidcup, Kent, son of William and Evelyn Blake. He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators. ![]() From 1999 to 2001, he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate. ![]() For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CH, CBE, FRSL, FCSD, RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration ![]()
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