BLAKE, Quentin.

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Jack and Nancy; [together with] -- & John Yeoman. Mr Nodd's Ark. First editions. Jack and Nancy, written and illustrated by Blake, was adapted into an animated short by the BBC in 2023 as part of its Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures series. The posthumous book label of Briggs (1934-2022), illustrator, graphic novelist, cartoonist, and author, is on the front pastedown of each book. Winner of numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award, Briggs noted that "the whole point of illustration is that it is literary. If it is not, it remains a drawing only... Something must be 'going on' in the illustration" (Horne, p. 124). He is chiefly remembered for Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1978), When the Wind Blows (1982), and the perennial classic The Snowman (1978).

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