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  • Published: 14 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241620687
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $21.00

Simpkin





A bouncing, read-aloud rhyme about all the things a child can be, from the nation's favourite llustrator, Quentin Blake!

A bouncing, read-aloud rhyme about all the things a child can be, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake!

"Here is SIMPKIN
Simpkin FAST and Simpkin SLOW
Simpkin HIGH and Simpkin LOW"

Simpkin is a mass of contradictions. He can be nasty and nice; weak and strong and sensible and silly - ALL at the same time! And when you really need him most - he's nowhere to be found . . .

"Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph

Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.

  • Published: 14 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241620687
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $21.00

About the author

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.

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