‘Reading can take you to amazing places’: Quentin Blake designs Blue Peter badge
The award drawn by the illustrator, 90, might be handed out to youngsters aged 5 to fifteen who ship of their ideas on a e-book, draw a personality or scene, or share which books and writers they love with the BBC youngsters’s programme.
Sir Quentin’s design options two youngsters studying massive books with a Blue Peter ship within the nook.
The youngsters’s creator and illustrator, finest identified for his prolonged collaboration with Roald Dahl, mentioned: “Reading can take you to amazing places.”
The Blue Peter Book badge will turn into a part of his archive and might be proven on the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which is opening in London in 2025.
The illustrator, who has created much-loved characters of his personal together with Mister Magnolia, Clown and Mrs Armitage, can even deliver his personal tales to life on CBBC’s Quentin Blake’s Box Of Treasures in December.
BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James and co-author Chris Smith, who write the Kid Normal collection, had been within the studio for the launch.
In a press release, they mentioned: “We are absolutely honoured to be launching this brand new Blue Peter badge, designed by one of own children’s book heroes, the marvellous Sir Quentin Blake.
“Reading is a superpower, and we know the Blue Peter Book Club and Book badge are going to inspire children across the country to put on their capes and pick up a book.
“We certainly know how excited we were to get our own Blue Peter badges – so it’s brilliant there is now a badge dedicated to reading, to show children just how important it is.”
Blue Peter has additionally chosen a studying checklist, which incorporates Am I Made Of Stardust? by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Michael The Amazing Mind-Reading Sausage Dog by Terrie Chilvers, with assist from the Reading Agency charity.
Each month, the kids’s present’s presenters will showcase a brand new e-book, BBC Arts will deliver the tales to life by means of animation, and there might be guides for schoolchildren.
Stephen James-Yeoman, commissioning govt for BBC Arts, mentioned: “Introducing children to books and reading for pleasure at an early age can help establish a lifelong love of great writing.
“Exciting stories can become like best friends which stay with you and support you through life.”
Previous designers of Blue Peter badges embody footballer Leah Williamson who made a sports activities model.
Other badges embody Blue, Silver, Green, Purple, Orange, Gold and Music.