Illustration Friday - Egg

What a lovely Easter theme for Illustration Friday. This one is from An Easter Prayer, published by Thomas Nelson. Happy Easter!

Illustration Friday - Snow

Another post for Illustration Friday - couldn't resist this one as I've just received my draft copy of a new book that I illustrated for Little Tiger Press called Dear Snowman which will be published next year. It's by Kathryn White and I'm excited about it because it's a lovely story - a real twist on the usual snowman books - and there are little extras such as postcards and stickers as well.
Here's one of the illustrations and a tiny bit of the story - a sneak preview for you!

That night, as Little Rabbit slept, the snow fell faster and faster. And something wonderful happened...

Illustration Friday - Zoom!

Ah, couldn't resist this one - this is from 'Just One More' by Tracey Corderoy - fits the bill perfectly!

Illustration Friday - Tree

This is the first time in ages I've had a chance to update my blog - sorry for being remiss but I've been happily working away on another book for Little Tiger Press called 'Dear Snowman' and I just finished it yesterday - hurrah! Starting a sweet new one for Franklin Watts next week so I'm squeezing in a post for Illustration Friday's subject this week - Tree

This is an illustration I did for Red House Children's Book Awards last year after my book 'Yuck!That's Not a Monster!' won the Younger Reader prize in 2011. It was used in the publicity for last year's prize.
I thought it fitted the bill perfectly!

On a Starry Night

Just had my copies of On a Starry Night delivered - I love to see books that I have illustrated for the first time in the flesh! This is one of a number of books that I've done for Stripes Publishing - it has 10 great little stories all on a wintery theme by different authors. I illustrated the cover and all the drawings inside too!

Edinburgh Book Festival 2012

Just back from Edinburgh - this is the third year I've done an event up there and this year I did two! The festival was wonderful as usual and the weather was warm and sunny!! We had full houses at both events. The first one I did was with Tracey Corderoy, the author of 'Just One More' and we did storytelling, made our own book from scratch and all the children made beautiful rockets - all in under an hour!

The next day I did an event on my own - the story I read (voted for by the children) was 'Yuck! That's not a Monster!' and we made another brilliant book and then all the children made their own Little Rabbits to take home.

I love Edinburgh - fingers crossed they ask me to go back next year!

Narwhals?

Who knew they were so cute! I love my job :o)