Category: books

  • The End of An Era

    Endings also mark new beginnings! Yesterday, Monday 12th May, All my physical artwork – about 40 years worth of my work went off to the Seven Stories Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle, England, where it will be stored and shared and studied and looked after. Two or three years ago I showed a mountain…

  • Midsummer Mayhem! – A Bronze Age Adventure Story

    This story covers ideas about time and measurement in ancient times. It also goes into moving heavy stones around the place – is this something else that Dug has invented? When Dug sees his dad celebrating the first glimpse of the Midsummer sun, he wonders how they can track its movements. With sticks, heavy stones,…

  • Go Offline!

    My website header says I’m “A real, live, proper, human children’s author.”It may seem obvious, but it’s getting harder to be seen in a world increasingly flooded with AI-generated content. I recently got an email from a company offering to turn my videos into newsletters for $19 a month. I pointed out that ChatGPT already does…