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praeternatural curios and pirates at the pitt river museum
Edit: Thanks for the fab event write-up, Sam and Holly at Childtasticbooks! Last Thursday, I gave my new-model pirate hat an outing, to Oxford Bookfeast at the Pitt Rivers Museum and University Museum of Natural History. Now, I’ve always wanted … Continue reading
geneva pirate invasion
This week I went on my first-ever trip to Switzerland! I used to pride myself on travelling lightly, just a tiny rucksack, but I never used to travel around foreign cities wearing big hats or dressed as a pirate. Some … Continue reading
world book day tour, part 3
At Winchester House School, they don’t go for inelegant little things like microphones, they have much more eye-catching amplification devices. For World Book Day, I did storytelling, character design and comics workshops with the kids, and I was glad to … Continue reading
world book day tour, part 2
When I got into my pirate gear on Wednesday morning, my first pre-World Book Day stop was Newbottle and Charlton Primary School in Oxfordshire. Louise told me that it was the first time they’d ever had an author visit the … Continue reading
hackney pirates
This photo shows how being a children’s book illustrator is just like being a rock star. See, here I am about to stage dive into a group of 5-year-olds. I had a full day of pirating today in Hoxton, as … Continue reading
snoopy dancing and bedtime stories
Here’s a Snoopy drawing for my studio mate Deadly Knitshade, who is working like billy-o on her latest book. She loves Snoopy, and whenever she’s particularly excited, you can tell because her messages are punctuated with the fab phrase *snoopy … Continue reading
monster battle on dartmoor
While Stuart and I visiting the Reeves on Dartmoor, Philip Reeve and I spent a morning at Widecombe-in-the-Moor Primary School, engaging in FIERCE MONSTER COMBAT. I first got the idea when Neill Cameron and I pitted one of his Mo-bots … Continue reading
making books with steve cole
Today the writer Steve Cole and I spent all day at Writtle College in Essex making Alice-in-Wonderland themed books with 50 nine- and ten-year olds, as a joint project between the Royal Opera House and Chelmsford’s Just Imagine story centre. … Continue reading
playing princess for the day
While you can’t quite see the corgis in this photo, I did feel like I was making a royal visit to Roding Primary School in Essex, what with the fancy hat and getting to flounce about majestically all day. Today … Continue reading
wild railway adventure at newton prep
Can I just say for the record that I am a big fan now of Newton Prep School in Battersea? I was a bit nervous this morning when I went to do a full day there because I’d never done … Continue reading
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