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Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In the 2013 New Year's Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.

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For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly Cockatoos -- Gwynneth Bailey * TES *
A wonderfully enjoyable story * Daily Mail *
Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll * Guardian *
There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this * Books for your Children *

Cockatoos

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    A Paperback / softback by Quentin Blake

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Red Fox
      Published 17 February 1994
      ISBN-13 9780099964902
      978-0099964902
      ISBN-10 0099964902
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      Baby, Toddler & Pre-School

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In the 2013 New Year's Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.

      Trade Review
      For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly Cockatoos -- Gwynneth Bailey * TES *
      A wonderfully enjoyable story * Daily Mail *
      Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll * Guardian *
      There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this * Books for your Children *

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