ONE of Bexley's most famous sons has received another accolade for his work being included on a Royal Mail stamp for a second time.
Sidcup-born artist Quentin Blake, famous among other things for his illustrations of Roald Dahl's stories, is one of the artists featured on the latest set of stamps to celebrate children's books.
His familiar illustration of Dahl's Enormous Crocodile will be on one of the first-class stamps in the series, which went on sale last week.
The story of the greedy reptile was the first in a long collaboration between Mr Blake and Mr Dahl, which began in1975.
Mr Blake was born in 1932 and is an old boy of Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, Hurst Road, Sidcup.
He was still at school when he had his first cartoon published in Punch magazine, at the age of 16.
Mr Blake was made an OBE in 1988 and the first Children's Laureate in 1999.
He still writes and illustrates his own books.
During his career he has illustrated more than 300 books.
In 1993 he made his first appearance on stamps after Royal Mail asked him to design a series of stamps to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
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