Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Quentin Blake
from Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen and illustrated by the grand Quentin Blake. I bought this book in 2005 when things were messy…it’s a strange but oddly magnificent book. You don’t feel like you’re reading about melancholy, but instead painful and very intimately experienced grief. This is supposed to be a children’s book (published by Walker, who do many great children’s books and who I did a week’s work experience with as a teenager) but as with many “kids’ books” it really is for everyone.
Anyway, I don’t have my copy with me but I sort of miss it tonight. Even though I’m going home in a couple of days.
I am thrilled that Julia Donaldson is the new Children’s Laureate, but quite riled that it’s now the Waterstones Children’s Laureate. Bloody cuts. Anyway, this illustration is, of course, by the wonderful Quentin Blake.
Illustration from Shaun Tan’s The Arrival
Shaun Tan, Oliver Jeffers, Chris Riddell, Timothy Basil Ering and Quentin Blake are my favourite illustrators. Absolutely absolutely.
