Category: books

  • Should the BBC be making paid for picture book writing tutorials?

    I was recently asked, as an influencer, to help promote the new BBC Maestro WRITING CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS course with Julia Donaldson. I was told about the amazing production values and wonderful quality tutors etc. When I checked it out, I was appalled to see they are charging £80! It appears that BBC Maestro “… has…

  • How the Leopard Got His Spots – Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories – Read Along

    The leopard is happy to be sandy-yellow and greyish-brow all over. But when he goes to the speckly-spiclkly forest, he begins to wonder if spots would be better… A fresh, new retelling of the classic Just So Story. The author, Rudyard Kipling, also wrote the Jungle Book over a hundred years ago. How the Leopard…

  • Wednesday Drawing Show – Today! 4:00pm UK time

    This week we are going to the dogs! Yes, drawing dogs, but why? My new book, Walker and the missing millions, comes out on the 25th March. I will be drawing a dog every day in March. Those characters will appear in the next book, at a celebrity dog show and will also appear on…