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Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens this week in London

Rob Beschizza
Jun 02, 2026
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Quentin Blake with a new mural. Photo: Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Since the 1960s, Britons have been growing up with Quentin Blake’s fabulous illustrations to books by Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Plath, William Steig, and even the first Dr. Seuss book that Seuss did not himself illustrate. Hundreds of them! And that’s not i…

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