Illustrator Chris Riddell attacks school tests with 'Sats beasties' drawings

Children’s laureate and political cartoonist draws series of ‘grammar monsters’ in response to warnings that current system is bad for children

The children’s laureate Chris Riddell has waded into the row over the value of Sats with a series of surreal sketches.

Riddell, an illustrator and political cartoonist who was appointed children’s laureate last year, has sketched a series of what he calls “Sats beasties” in response to warnings by authors and parents that the current system of testing primary school children is detrimental.

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