Happy NEWS Year!

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! ! !

And a Big hello to all the lovely people who commented on my last update and have since started following my blog!

I had a lovely Christmas (involving a trip to Paris and the circus! More about that soon!) and am now back in the studio working away on lots of exciting, and sadly for the moment, TOP SECRET things which I hope to share with you soon!

But first, some NEWS:

FANTASTIC FRANKIE and the BRAIN-DRAIN MACHINE written by Anna Kemp and illustrated by me is out now available to buy and, most excitingly it's been nominated for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. The winner will be announced on 9th Feb!

And on Friday I had an email from my lovely french publisher Editions Nord-Sud telling me that the french language version of my book EGG is publishing next month under the BRILLIANT title 'Omelette Surprise!'

The above image is a New Year greetings card they've made to promote the book!

EGG!

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"Of all the suspicious looking houses in all the deserted woods

in all the world, he had to roll up to hers..."

Yesterday this arrived -my advance copy of my new picture book - EGG!

I'm so delighted with it - the colours have reproduced beautifully and the spot varnish on the cover is a glorious, shiny treat.

If you think you might like to read an exciting story - a sort of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?/A Streetcar Named Desire, but for children and with a Fox and an egg - this is the book for you.

It can be pre-ordered here, or here and of course at you local independent bookseller.

(Don't forget about them - they are brilliant.)

I do apologise for the quality of the photos. The light today is truly awful and these are very much the best of a bad bunch!