Powerful works on paper in which humanity is depicted through images of extraordinary birds. "Wonderfully acute observations of how birds behave become a commentary - kindly but penetrating - on human nature." A series of six large-scale limited edition prints, signed by Quentin Blake.
Quentin Blake's appointment as the first children's Laureate acknowledged half a century spent bringing characters - his own well as those of Russell Hoban, Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken and dozens of others - to life on the page. The pictures in The Life of Birds are bigger, broader and more sombre, but no less lively than his much-loved and hugely admired children's book illustrations. Here Quentin Blake follows in the path of the great illustrators, such as Daumier and Lear, and of fabulists like Aesop and La Fontaine.