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Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In the 2013 New Year's Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.
Weary of hearing the same greeting day after day - Good morning, my fine feathered friends! - Professor Dupont's ten cockatoos fly the coop. He searches every room of his elaborate, old house without spotting them - but readers will, for they're all there, slightly concealed. Blake's illustrations are, as ever, funny and filled with lively detail; but while this doubles as a counting book, it's as airy and weightless as a feather. (Kirkus Reviews)
