Tag: children’s books

  • The Ginger Ninja – The Dance of the Apple Dumplings – Full Read Aloud Story

      I hope you enjoyed the first two stores in the Ginger Ninja series? (See me read The Ginger Ninja here  – and the Return of Tiddles here ) In book Three – The Dance of the Apple Dumplings – There’s a weird new teacher at school with some wild, new ideas. Neither Ginger or Tiddles…

  • Are children’s book authors and illustrators adults too?

    I went to London on Thursday and had some time to spend in the mediaeval galleries at the V&A  (Victoria and Albert Museum in London)  I did some sketching and shared the work on YouTube. This morning I woke to an interesting comment: I thought about it over breakfast and ended up with a much…

  • Illustrating Children’s Books

    I’ve just finished page 140 of the Michael Morpurgo book that i’ve been illustrating all this month. That’s the last page – hooray! But then I didn’t like it, so I wanted to do it again. This video will show you how I copy the illustration I didn’t like and turn it into one I…