Is anyone interested in trying a virtual School Visit on the whiteboard using Skype. Skype is probably banned on your system, so you would need to get clearance to use it, have it installed on your class laptop or whatever you use, and yo would need a skype account too. If this doesn’t sound too daunting, get in touch!
update: see this page for details
Here’s an new video showing you hoe o draw a panda bear. It’s all in pencil this time. Pencil seems to suit bears better but I’m doing a grizzly bear in pen next time. Enjoy! Tell all your friends!
I’ve been telling a story about this little girl in schools and libraries for about ten years now. The story has changed and evolved in that time. I thought I had it cracked when I rewrote it around a pop-up gimmick I invented. But the banks crashed, the recession hit and it proved too expensive. I’ve been thinking about how to rewrite it ever since. I had one major rewrite, but it didn’t work at all.
It’s amazing the way the subconscious works. Last night I had an email from the editor I was working with at the time, Natscha Biebow, with a lovely picture of her son on his first birthday. She was writing to say she wouldn’t be returning to work.
I suppose, subconsciously, I’d been awaiting her return to get on with the story. Her email must have loosened something in the brain, because I woke at 5.30 with the answer. It was so simple I can’t think why it’s taken me ten years or more to think of it!
Am I going to tell you the secret? Of course not! Unless you are a picture book editor and would like to have a little look!