Angelo (40th anniversary ed)

A marvellous story about helping each other out, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake. Angelo and his family travel round the country playing music, singing songs and performing marvellous balancing tricks: Angelo can even dance on a rope!

So when he meets Angelina, who is sad and lonely and trapped in her mean uncle's house, Angelo knows just how to help ... "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily TelegraphQuentin 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.