Category: School & Library Visits

  • The Great Malarkey Festival – Hull 2017

    I can’t believe a week has gone by since The Great Malarkey Children’s Festival in Hull. I got back Sunday night and had to pile straight into a major rewrite of a story on Monday and Tuesday before heading off to London on Wednesday for the Fabulous Harper Collins 200th Birthday Party at the Victoria…

  • Day one of the Great Malarkey Festival in Hull

    Today I’ve been at the children’s book festival – the great malarkey – in Hull which is on the East Coast of England. I’m the illustrator in Residence all week and will be filling my sketchbook up – have a look to see what I did today.

  • Happy Empathy Day!

    Happy Empathy Day? What’s that? Oh no! Not another weird American idea we are going to have to buy greetings cards for? Today is actually the first Empathy Day. In relation to this post I should be calling it #EmpathyDay because hashtags and social media are one of the main cause for the recent lowering of empathy in…