• I had a great day yesterday, at Dorchester Primary School in Worcester Park, Surrey. I spent the day introducing the children to The Just So Stories.

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    We did a lot of drawing and story planning too. We came up with the basis for a story about the beginning of the Orang Utans but I just could not draw on off the top of my head. I’ve done quite a bit of research on them. The babies look all the same, but adults are very individual and hard to draw. I’ll have to work on that.

    Here’s a video of some of year three’s fabulous whale drawings. Thanks for a great day and good luck for the rest of the term, everyone!

  • Phew! The artwork for my sixth Axel Storm book is finished. Sea Wolf is probably the most exciting, involving dangerous rescues ant se and general danger of loss of life and limb! Printing and publishing schedules mean that I’ll hardly have time to draw breath before beginning the last two books, which need to be finished by the end of the month, because I’m spending the whole of Children’s Book Week in Gurnsey this year. An exciting few weeks coming up.

  • I’m visiting Dorchester Primary School, near Kingston, Surrey (where I was born) on Monday. I’m doing a whole day of Just So Stories, so I’ve done this drawing lesson of a Baby Elephant for them. Don’t do the drawing yet, I’ll be showing you how first thing Monday!