Meet the Family

Meet this highly eccentric family from the comic geniuses John Yeoman and Quentin Blake, certain to be more extraordinary than any family you’ve ever known!

Everyone’s family is different, but none more so than this one from the imagination of legendary team John Yeoman and Quentin Blake.

Meet Uncle Marvello and Auntie Shazam: magicians extraordinaire… they can even make your watch disappear. And Cousin Charlie, who cooks up a feast… then eats it all himself. From uncles and cousins to babies and elderly aunts, everyone in this family is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud!

About the Author

John Yeoman was for many years Head of English at the French Lycee in London. His collaboration with Quentin Blake began in 1960, and has resulted in a long list of successful children's books of which a number of earlier well-loved titles are now being republished by Andersen Press for new generations of readers.

About the Illustrator

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.