David McKee, the author and illustrator of Mr Benn and King Rollo, has died aged 87.
I didn't know much about his subsequent career - it looks like he wrote around 50 books - but as kids my brothers and I absolutely loved Mr Benn, along with many of the other programmes shown in that "Watch with Mother" time slot in the 1970s.
We also had one of McKee's early books, The Poor Farmer and the Robber Knights (written with German author Walter Kreye, I've just learned), and I was fascinated by the way he combined the illustrations with the text and used a very odd sense of perspective, almost like those strange flattened maps of the world.
Sorry to hear he's gone. RIP.
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The Elmer books were wonderful. I really enjoyed reading them to my kids.
RIP David McKee
and the music for it
I was thinking of opening one of those shops
Loved Mr Benn, absolutely iconic.............52 Festive Road ?? always remember the dinosaur one
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.