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We quiz Claude In The City creator Alex T Smith
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 31/05/2011 20:28:38
Alex T Smith spills on the beans on his own mischievous hounds, his signature style and his clumsy tendencies...
? Lots of people. My family - my mother used to draw for me all the time when I was little and my father read me stories. Later on, when I was at university, he became a highly skilled ( and very useful) dummy book maker as I hated doing it. I’m incapable
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What should you do if you think your baby sister is an alien?
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 21:02:53
Send her off into space, of course! At least, that's according to young Alfie, the hero of Rachel Bright's My Sister Is An Alien
the years until this story was ready to be written.You see, I’m the middle one of three children. I have a much younger sister who was born when I was nine. This was a dream come true for me at the time because it was like being delivered a life-size doll
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Birdsong - tweet all about it!
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 20:22:17
Feathers fly in riotously raucous picture book Birdsong by Ellie Sandall
creating a din!Are you a keen ornithologist? I do enjoy watching birds, and they are one of my favourite subjects to draw, but I can’t say that I know an awful lot about them. My granddad is more knowledgeable, and he lent me a book called A Field Guide
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Best Classic Book: Miffy At The Gallery
By Words: Catherine O'Dolan Photography: Ferry André de la Porte on 17/05/2011 16:27:44
An interview with author, Dick Bruna, who tells us about the creation of his iconic bunny girl, Miffy
loved them – they kept asking me questions about the characters and begged their parents to buy them. I knew then that I should continue to make books for children.Apart from books, what other projects is Miffy involved in? (I know you’ve done stuff
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Meet the creator of Foxly’s Feast
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 31/05/2011 20:10:19
Illustrator Owen Davey muses on ginger locks, picnics and old Parisian posters
’ve always had friends that are ginger. Maybe that has something to do with why I like foxes so much…There are no words in your book, why?I chose a wordless format so that parents and children have to make decisions themselves. It would be too easy if I told
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Rebecca Elliott on creating Zoo Girl
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 19:18:08
Highly Commended in our Junior Design Awards category Picture Book Of The Year, author and illustrator Rebecca Elliott gives us the back story to her latest book, Zoo Girl
it into a solid picture book.I always try to write about what excited me as a child in the hope that children will share that same excitement. Stories of feral Mogli-esque children have always fascinated me and as a child I adored animals and daydreamed
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Zoo Girl
By Lucy Phillips on 14/06/2011 16:19:48
Zoo Girl is highly commended in our Picture Book Of The Year category!
Elliott’s book has all the hallmarks of a classic. “Stories of feral Mowgli-esque children have always fascinated me and as a child I adored animals and daydreamed of living amongst them,” says Elliott. “I’d had the rough idea for Zoo Girl buzzing around
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Too Many Girls (surely not!)
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 17/06/2011 15:39:30
Jonty Lees battle-of-the-sexes tale was highly-commended in our category for Most Promising New Talent
“BEFORE I HAD children, I knew some other men who had lots of daughters,” says author-illustrator Jonty Lees. “I thought, they’ve got the life! All those girls loving you and your house being lovely, and I could never understand why they enjoyed
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