Roald Dahl's Mr and Mrs Twit are now playing their vile tricks on each other in a specially-tinted colour edtion, published by Puffin Books in 2010.

Original artwork from the book features in the exhibition ‘Quentin Blake: Inside Stories’, which is touring the UK until 2017.

‘Danny the Champion of the World’ was one of Roald Dahl’s books which Quentin illustrated several years after the author’s death in 1990. Here, Danny’s father celebrates a record haul of pheasants from Hazell’s Wood.
This drawing was first published in ‘The Roald Dahl Treasury’ (1997) and the original artwork is included in the exhibition ‘Quentin Blake: Inside Stories’ which tours the UK until late 2017.

This leafy figure is well known in Hastings, where the annual ‘Jack in the Green’ festival is held on May Day. Quentin chose him as one of the typical inhabitants of Hastings to occupy a parallel underwater world in his 2015 exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery. There were 24 different subjects in total in the exhibition, ranging from day-trippers to sunbathers, Morris Dancers to wine tasters.

In 2005, Quentin curated Les Demoiselles des Bords de Seine, an exhibition for the newly-refurbished Musée du Petit Palais in Paris, using rarely-seen works from the Museum's reserve collection. The works were on the theme of women, introduced by his figures of cherubs and children. Unlike his work for The National Gallery in London, where Quentin’s figures were on rickety-looking scaffolding, these figures could either fly or were standing on boxes.

One of a matching pair of artworks (the second griffin faces left) produced for Downing College, Cambridge in 2015. Quentin’s watercolour drawings were recreated as large-scale pieces of woven tapestry, and hang side by side in the Grace Howard Room at the College.

This specially-coloured version of Quentin Blake's illustration (the original is in black & white) was used on a set of four stamps issued by the Royal Mail in 2012.

Children slide down bannisters and snowy hills as well as elephants in this rhyme by Quentin Blake. ‘All Join In’ is a collection of short poems intended for everyone to join in with - the louder, the better!

Danny the Champion of the World was one of Roald Dahl’s books which Quentin illustrated several years after the author’s death in 1990. Here, Danny and his father have made a kite which they are flying from the top of the hill behind their caravan.
This drawing was first published in ‘The Roald Dahl Treasury’ (1997).

French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ commissioned Quentin to produce a series of drawings on a literary theme for their supplement in September 2012. In characteristic style, Quentin chose to depict a series of birds, caught in situations recognisable to authors: like this one, who is searching for just the right phrase.

Commissioned by doctors at Scarborough Hospital in 2009, this series of 9 maternity drawings went on to form the basis of Quentin's much larger body of work for a new maternity unit in Angers, France. These maternity drawings featured as prints in the touring exhibition Quentin Blake: As Large as Life, which toured the UK 2012-2014.

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The deluxe limited edition from 2013 (published by The Folio Society) comprised fifty tales - each with a moral - by the seventeenth century French poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine. Quentin selected the fifty poems in the collection, and produced at least one accompanying illustration for each of them.