Donough O Malley is very happy to announce his inclusion in the International Youth Librarys White Raven exhibition in Bologna. The International Youth Library, based in Munich, is the largest libra...
To kick in March with some hopes of Spring and sunshine, Jane has provided us with some bright and fun illustrations she did for a company called Little fidgets. Little Fidgets is a company running F...
I was always told that I should keep a sketchbook; it is a discipline, a resource, a vital tool. Good advice, no doubt, but I have never kept one. I’m not confident, I can’t lose myself enough, to st...
Bee Willey shares with us some of the artwork for the re-launched book Rory McRory. The story by Sandra Horn, and illustrations by Bee, was originally released by by Hodder Wayland in 1998. It will b...
A new Year and a new book illustrated by Henning Lohlein. This cute little story is by the author Manfred Mai and published by the suitably named Ravensburger in Germany. Ringo the Raven is differen...
Happy New Year All !Illustration by Henning Lohlein
Its that time of year again in case you hadnt noticed, so all of us here at Frances McKay want to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year with a selection of seasonal illustrations. These...
For the last five years TerrorBull Games have published board games - specifically satirical and subversive board games. Last year we met a French vegan anarchist and artificial intelligence speciali...
Julia Donaldson, childrens laureate and author of the Gruffalo, chose "My name is Mr Fox" written by Shen Roddie and illustrated by Henning Löhlein, amongst her top ten favourite recent pictu...
Bee Willeys The Mouse who saved Egypt written by Karim Alrawi and published by Tradewind Books has been entered into the childrens books section of The Peoples Book Prize. Heres a message from B...
Its that time of the year again when the great and good in British Illustration pop up in the A.O.Is IMAGES annual. Judgement on number 36 is out soon, while IMAGES 35 recently had its private view i...
I am a writer, but for the last two years I’ve also been a stand-up comedian. At the age of fifty my first novel ‘The Comedienne’ was published, ten years later in my sixtieth year a friend enrolled ...
What a mystery! We give birth to our stories - conceived in what impenetrable realms? - and they fly off into the world, a few hundred words, flapping black and white. If we are very very lucky some...
Going to Mecca, my first full-size picture book written by Na’ima B Roberts with publisher Frances Lincoln, is nearly ready to go to print! Through poetry and pictures the book takes us on a pilgrima...
As part of the Big Draw 2011, a number of Illustrators in Bristol U.K. will be holding an event this Saturday 8th October. Brillustration, is a loose group of Bristol based Illustrators who regularly...
Ive been inking away in the TerrorBull Games bunker recently. And the result of these fevered sessions is our 5th free print and play game. There have been four before this? I hear you cry. Oh yes, ...
Last February I finished illustrating a book by author Lissa Evans called Small Change for Stuart. I drew on A4 drawing paper, a pad of which I bought from Trago Mills (a department shop in Falmouth)...
When not drawing cuddly creatures or pesky kids, I spend my time thrashing out some editorial illustrations for a number of publications. The approach couldnt be more different from illustrating book...
In September my latest book (cover) is going to be released. This is my first book cover for 10-year-old boys. When Maya Geis, my editor from Oetinger Publishing House called me on the phone I was ve...
I have drawn two designs for a card which Im doing for The Pink Place in Basingstoke. This is a charity which offers free support,information and complementary therapies to people who have or have ha...
Throughout September the wonderful Illustration Rally will be running a Childrens Book Rally. This is one to enter! Make no mistake there is a nice prize for the winner but the real beauty...
Having completed my first book while pregnant, eight weeks after Alfie was born it was time to tackle book number two, Jack and Jill. Im not sure how I managed to do this. My candle was thoroughly b...
Recently I have been very happily sketching meerkats, for a possible new project!! Frances rang me up one day to ask, “How do you feel about drawing meerkats?” I answered, “Well, I’d definitely like...
(Click on the images to enlarge the illustrations) I first met Jane Goodall at Heathrow airport with the publisher Michael Neugebauer. Michael had already published The Chimpanzee Family Book with Ja...
I’m a novelist and write books for a living. But my first love was illustration. I can’t remember learning how to draw. It was something that fell from the sky and landed in my lap.I was never formal...
The Mouse who saved Egypt will be published by Tradewind Books in July 2011 in the US and Canada, September 2011 in the UK. Tradewind are small but publish interesting stuff and have a fab typographe...
Just as I am gluing the word “end” on the final page of “A Frisbee to Fly”, the latest of Secret Seed Society books, I was very excited to hear that they have been featured on the Guardian as the “bu...
Its been a bit crazy manic recently as Ive been doing all sorts with The Geography Collective - We are a collective of Geography activists, teachers, academics, artists and guerrillas. We’ve come...
Author and illustrator Chris Mould visited St Edmunds Catholic Primary School in Godalming and did Something Wickedly Weird – He stepped into their world, took them back to a time when he was seven ...
This post by Zoe Toft featured on Playing by the Book back in April this year. Its so good we are putting it up again for those of you that missed it the first time - Enjoy! At the start of this ...
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