Tag Archives: summer_reading_challenge

summer reading challenge 2020

Posted on January 10 2020 by dan fone

Thrilled that The Reading Agency has chosen Kevin’s Great Escape as one of the books for the 2020 Summer Reading Challenge! (Only a couple more days to finish the Pugs-of-the-Frozen-North-themed Winter Mini Challenge!) You might remember I was the featured … Continue reading →

pugs ahoy! it’s the winter mini challenge!

Posted on December 2 2019 by dan fone

The Winter Mini Challenge starts today! Hosted by the Reading Agency (who run the official Summer Reading Challenge – nearly a million children take part!), this year it features Pugs of the Frozen North! All kids need to do is … Continue reading →

knight and dragon

Posted on December 10 2014 by dan fone

You don’t think the characters from the Summer Reading Challenge Mythical Maze are shut up in a cupboard during the winter, do you? No no, they’re off having adventures, in and out of the library. The dragon’s currently tormenting knights. … Continue reading →

the giant earwigs from mars

Posted on October 9 2014 by dan fone

So the results are in! The winner of this year’s Medusa Malarky Story Starter competition is… Madam Kangaroo Nuggets! For the Summer Reading Challenge, I was asked to begin a story in comics format, and people could continue the story … Continue reading →

summer reading challenge: congratulations, everyone!

Posted on September 16 2014 by dan fone

I’ve heard so many wonderful things about this year’s Summer Reading Challenge, and SO many people took part! I got this message from the kids at Dewsbury Library in Kirklees, who were having a party to celebrate earning this year’s … Continue reading →

at first I thought, wow, she’s posh

Posted on September 11 2014 by dan fone

Here’s the video of our Summer Reading Challenge visit to Leith Library! Philip Reeve came along and made a very elegant flip-chart stand. I love it when the boy says, At first I thought, wow, she’s posh! She had like, … Continue reading →

Scottish Space Adventure: Edinburgh Book Festival 2014

Posted on September 1 2014 by dan fone

This year Edinburgh Book Festival was OUT OF THIS WORLD! My literary co-pilot Philip Reeve and I had been putting together a Cakes in Space stage show and this was our first full-on performance. (Since Reeve lives on Dartmoor and … Continue reading →

how to draw anansi: new video!

Posted on August 14 2014 by dan fone

Remember when I posted this ‘How to Draw Anansi’ sheet? Well, the Summer Reading Challenge have put up a video from my studio where I draw it for you, and talk you through it! And I also give you a … Continue reading →

unicorn cat

Posted on August 1 2014 by dan fone

I’ve seen some great Silly Unicorns tweeted in after The Guardian posted my Summer Reading Challenge How-to-Draw guide. I’ll post more later, but one of them inspired me to draw this: Here’s the original Silly Unicorn, on the left, that … Continue reading →

summer reading challenge: draw a silly unicorn!

Posted on July 30 2014 by dan fone

Check out The Guardian gallery today! It features one of the characters nearly a million children around the country will have on their Summer Reading Challenge mythical maze poster, Silly Unicorn! Grab a piece of paper and something to draw … Continue reading →

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