Book two

While I've been waiting for Life Is Magic to be officially out and about in the world I've been working hard on book two.  The Bologna Children's Book Fair starts next week so no doubt bits and pieces will be revealed.  Until then all I can tell you is this...

There will be hats.


This is top secret so keep it under your hats.

Life Is Magic

Apologies for the huge gap in blog posts but I've been very busy working on my first picture book.  (Hooray!)  Here's a picture of it at the Bologna Book Fair this year with the lovely people at Andersen Press who are publishing it.

It has been so much fun to work on but completely consuming as it's absolutely jam-packed from cover to cover.  I can't really say much more about for now but I can tell you it's bursting with magic, bunnies and shenanigans.

So long

So I am returned from Bologna with two fantastic new books (the purse strings were tightened this year), a Simone Rea poster which he actually painted on and signed hence is now my most treasured possession (and which I subsequently smudged with my thumb), a cold, and a body mass of 90% pizza.

Alas I have no new work but here are some seagulls from before I went.

The gelato thief

  We're off to the Bologna book fair this week and this is pretty much how I plan to look whilst I'm there.

             Just imagine me stealing gelato from an unsuspecting passer-by.

You can also see the excellent work of the Cambridge School of Art, Children's Book Illustration students at the fair so come see us.