More Handmade Christmas Cards!

Here are some bears in hats!

I will be selling my handmade cards at Cambridge Christmas 2013.  This event is on the 25th November at the Unitarian Church Hall in Cambridge from 1pm to 8.30pm.  For more details click here.

Some new handmade Christmas cards...

It's less than a month away to this year's Cambridge Christmas event so I have started to make some new cards.  Here are dogs in hats!

My Agent's New Website

My agent, Elizabeth Roy, has just launched a new website which you can see here.  Each illustrator can mange their own content so we can refresh our images as often as we want. See my page here!

Some snakes!

Here are a few action shots from my recent library event.  20 children drew dogs, penguins and made pop-up snakes.  I really enjoyed the event as everyone really got involved - and the feedback from parents was great!  Thanks to everyone who attended and to all the library staff for making me feel so welcome.

Pop-up Snake!

I will be at Cherry Hinton Library tomorrow morning between 10.30-11.30am reading stories and making pop-up snakes! It's a free event for ages 3-5 but places need to be booked. This is my demonstration snake - I'm sure there will be some much better ones made tomorrow!

New Animal Board Books!

I have just received the first advance copies of my Animal Opposites and Animal Noises board books.  They will be out in September!

Co-editions

This is how Animal Colours looks in Finnish!

And here's a couple of familiar looking Penguins.....

Tom und Timmi (aka Fluff and Billy) is being published by ArsEdition in Germany in September!  See their website for more details including a chance to see inside...

World Penguin Day!

The man on the radio has just announced it's World Penguin Day so.....

Exciting times!

While I was away last week I had an exciting tip-off from my friend Anna....my book I Got a Crocodile was read by Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Damian Lewis on the CBeebies Bedtime Stories slot on Thursday evening!  I've taken a few screenshots to prove to myself that I'm not imagining the whole thing!  It's still available on the i-player for a couple of days: if you're in the UK and want to watch click here.

I've been away....

I've just got back from a short break in Cornwall.  While I was there I did a little bit of drawing as well as walking up and down lots of beaches.  It was REALLY windy so quite hard to draw outside so the second two were done hanging out of windows. It was also the first time I'd used my little travel set of watercolours for a long, long time (you'll notice I'm getting the excuses in early) so it's now chock-full of sand!

I Got a Crocodile at Children's Heffers

I will be at Children's Heffers bookshop in Cambridge next Thursday evening along with some other Cambridge School of Art MA graduates and their new books: Marta Altes, Elys Dolan and Courtney Dicmas.  Please come along and say hello!
Big thanks to Courtney for putting together the invitation!

I Got a Crocodile!

Tomorrow is the publication date of my new book 'I Got a Crocodile!' (Simon & Schuster).  It seems like the publication date has come round very quickly since I finished the book, but the original idea goes back to when I was on the MA course at Cambridge five years ago!

The characters are still the same as they were all those years ago!  Here's a picture of my graduation exhibition: