steepholm

I'm too old to have read Dahl as a child. My daughter went through a phase of enjoying them, but I always felt there was an underlying feeling of nastiness to the stories, so I didn't read them myself. Daughter went on to become a horror fan for a while, which is definitely NOT to my taste. However, she seems to have grown up without being mentally harmed. Like you, I'm not a fan of Quentin Blake's illustrations, though as I don't like the books, I think they do fit. However, I do like Charles Keeping's work, especially that classic cover for "Elidor".