[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-book-roundup-2015":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This year's been a busy one! I thought I'd do a roundup of the books I've worked on this year, and a little peek behind the scenes, and who made them happen! \\r\n\\r\nHere's my second solo picture book with \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scholasticuk\">Scholastic UK\u003C/a>, \u003Ci>Dinosaur Police\u003C/i>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/Dinosaur-Police-Sarah-McIntyre-9781407143286\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/DinosaurPolice_lj_zpshzqm612u-fd76790db9.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI'd had such fun drawing sharks with BIG TEETH for \u003Ci>There's a Shark in the Bath\u003C/i> that I thought it would be fun to do something else with BIG TEETH. And dinosaurs were the obvious choice because I was dinosaur-crazy as a kid. And I also liked to build little worlds out of LEGO. So I got to build a dinosaur world! Here's some of the original artwork on my desk, painted in liquid coloured inks: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dino_art_lj_zps3q6rrvtv-29818ebb36.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nCombining dinosaurs with police was my editor Pauliina's idea. Her son was really into cops and robbers stories, but she hadn't seen a lot of recent books on the subject. And we were getting so much bad press about cops from US news stories, that I thought it would be great for kids to see cops in a good light, doing what they should be doing, so we get good sorts of people going into the police force, not people who as kids learned that it is a free place to be a bully. Here's how a page happens, from a 'thumbnail' doodle, to a pencil rough, to a finished painted page. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dino_roughs_lj_zpsmt0qm5us-c298c6e9e9.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dino_rawr_art_lj_zpstxjkcm3e-a5056425e2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's just a small part of my Scholastic team! But these are the people I worked with most often: designer \u003Cb>Rebecca Essilifie\u003C/b>, editor \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PauliinaPopcorn\">Pauliina Malinen\u003C/a>, and publicist \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/davesanger09\">David Sanger\u003C/a>, who was wonderful on stage at festivals in Hay and Bath as DINOSAUR DAVE. (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/dinosaur-police/\">Click here if you want some free Dinosaur Police activities from my website\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dino_team_lj_zps2dwoteqk-e0ca453611.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMy friend and former studio mate Lauren O'Farrell (aka \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/deadlyknitshade\">Deadly Knitshade\u003C/a>) is always great with the extra fun stuff! Not only did she make an awesome dinosaur fascinator for the launch of \u003Ci>Dinosaur Police\u003C/i>, but she designed, knitted, and wrote the pattern for our \u003Ci>Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/i> pug! (You can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/pugs-of-the-frozen-north/\">download the pattern from my website here\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lauren_hat_pug_zpsjbnjlqd3-f571b1f595.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMy artist friend \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EddieSmith3D/?fref=ts\">Eddie Smith\u003C/a> was a big help with costumes, designing my Dinosaur Police hat! (Full costume photo by Jay Williams for The Telegraph.) And here's tailor \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EstherBlessedUK/?fref=ts\">Esther Marfo\u003C/a> sewing my costumes! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/eddie_dino_hat_zps7f0jxvt1-6b395500ff.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/esther_lj_zpswvajsouu-8c38714f04.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhich leads us on to... PUGS OF THE FROZEN NORTH! Everything to do with this book has been pretty epic. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780192734570/?region=uk\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pugs_cover_lj_zps0iie5uzh-7d6ccd9e60.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThere was a crane. There was a stage show. There was a Pugs Roadshow tour. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pugs_tour_zpsbkgzndbs-2972fe57e0.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">2nd photo by Jody Lawson, third photo by Anna Gordon for The Guardian.\u003C/i>\u003C/font> \\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nAnd the \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OUPChildrens\">Oxford Children's Books\u003C/a> team was massive. Together with the foreign rights team and the sales reps and the printers, there must have been well over 100 people working on this book, very possibly more. Here's our designer \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/9peace8\">Jo Cameron\u003C/a>, publisher \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LizJCross\">Liz Cross\u003C/a> and editor \u003Cb>Clare Whitston\u003C/b>. And I have NO IDEA who these masked people are but they tweeted a very eerie photo(!) ...and let's just call them the rights team. Because I don't have a picture of them, but they worked SO HARD to get us published in a zillion languages. (They include \u003Cb>Valentina Fazio\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Anne-Marie Hansen\u003C/b>, among others!) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pugsteam1_zpsdcbsoesp-bb6f3c52d7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPublicists \u003Cb>Elaine McQuade\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/keobaxendine\">Keo Baxendine\u003C/a>, \u003Cb>Harriet Bayly\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SarahAnnHowells\">Sarah Howells\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pugteam2_zpsywt2cyns-c2a4d494c9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aleshabonser\">Alesha Bonser\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LizScottPR\">Liz Scott\u003C/a> and, of course, my fab co-author \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">PHILIP REEVE\u003C/a> (and a team of excellent pugs). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pugteam3_zpsta7dqwel-870737bb04.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd the final book I worked on this year was quite a small job, because so many people were working on it! I only drew two pages, but it's a lovely book. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/macmillanchildrensbooks/drawitcolouritcreatures\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/618ZgJygL_SX393_BO1204203200__zps4mbigwat-6fb024bb00.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nConfession time: I actually drew these pages for the Puffin Post magazine... just before it was discontinued! So I had these pages, and when \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MacKidsBooks\">Macmillan\u003C/a> asked if I could contribute something, I was pleased as punch that they fit the format. Hurrah! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/draw_feather_lj_zps9mnkqhxe-997ac7c415.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nTwo other people have been very involved in all these books: my amazing agent \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JodieHodges31\">Jodie Hodges\u003C/a>, and my lovely and supportive husband (who's soldiered on through some crazy work schedules), \u003Cb>Stuart\u003C/b>. Thank you so much, guys! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/jodie_stuart_zpsbvr7aj5v-f1bc3801e5.jpg\">","2015-12-07T11:21:00.000Z","book-roundup-2015",[],"book roundup 2015!",1776628727972]