Miranda Mary Piker

Everybody loves Roald Dalh's mischievous wit.

Unfortunately for most of us illustrators, Quentin Blake had a very fruitful and long-lasting collaboration with Dahl. So no one else got much of a look in.

I got my one chance to illustrate a really wicked Roald Dahl poem called "Miranda Mary Piker" for an anthology produced by Walker Books around 1990.

I've just discovered that this was in fact a character that he had edited out of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

It was great fun to illustrate something as truly nasty and hilarious as this. 

I should do more of this kind of work as an antidote to my more serious books.