In this video I show you all the roughs and sketches and dummy books that I made as I finally honed the stories and character design for my first ever book series – Lydia – which was published by Oxford University Press in 1987 as part of World famous, Oxford Reading Tree reading scheme.

The books stayed in print for years. But recently I have had the rights returned and have made the books available again in a larger picture book sized edition through Amazon which you can get here in the UK: https://amzn.to/3FqGWUV
Here from The USA: https://amzn.to/3LTA70J
and here in Canada: https://amzn.to/3l7dHgN

And you can buy the Lydia Out and About book here in the UK: https://amzn.to/3FmVdSE
here in the USA: https://amzn.to/3OZyQqV
and here in Canada: https://amzn.to/38d11Sn

See the stories:
Lydia and the Ducks https://youtu.be/xi0eX177TB4
Lydia and her Cat https://youtu.be/Bsje1flaSxA
Lydia and the Letters https://youtu.be/qEHkIz-s6OM
Lydia and the Present https://youtu.be/tFvktQb7G1g
Lydia and her Garden https://youtu.be/35foR3_pJlc
Lydia at the shops https://youtu.be/Jevj0Oy4BWU

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