He was the Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009 and has published over 200 books for children and adults, including the recent bestseller Many Different Kinds of Love and On The Move. Both the words and the images articulate strong emotion with admirable economy and convey a sense of the preciousness of life without being sentimental, platitudinous or falsely hopeful. The subject of bereavement is treated in an unusual way in Michael Rosen's Sad Book, which deals with the death of the author's own son. They combine perfectly recognisable portraits of Rosen with expressionism, proving that Blake's seemingly spontaneous style is born out of practice and precision. It also describes how Rosen found his despair lifting and how he was able to deal with his grief and think about the good times he had with his son.

A moving combination of sincerity and simplicity, it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable and perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain. The remainder of the book discusses the different feelings that bereavement brings, and ways of coping with them including distracting oneself and expressing feelings through writing. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. During his time in the role, he celebrated children's books and children's book illustration with a range of projects and exhibitions, and conceived the idea for the House of Illustration, the world's first centre dedicated to the art of illustration in all its forms.It's a book to be kept forever it's so relatable that you would think its only you who feel this way and what's goingbon this books simple self honest explanatory book is just a book you can re read when needed and say its OK not be ok don't feel guilty for when you do .

From his iconic illustrations of The BFG and Matilda to Mr Stink with birds and beasts of all shapes and sizes along the way, Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator Quentin Blake has been making us smile for more than half a century. The Guardian noted that the book was indeed sad but highly recommended it, saying, " Sad Book doesn't hide the darkness. A heartbreakingly honest account of a father’s grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children’s Laureates. A children's author and illustrator, most well-known for his illustratrations for books by Roald Dahl.He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised and teaches critical approaches to reading on an MA in Children’s Literature, having done the same at Birkbeck, University of London. It wasn't made like any other book either; Michael Rosen said of the text, " I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling and it went straight down onto the page .

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.And Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael "being sad but trying to look happy" is the most difficult drawing he's ever done. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.