Tag: illustration

  • Everyone Really Can Draw

    Yes, I really do believe everyone can draw… so much so I wrote the book! Drawing is much like writing. Imagine if you had spent as much learning to draw simple shapes as you did learning to draw your letters. Then imagine drawing every day of your school life, the same amount of time you…

  • Frankatstein – A Scaredy Cats Story

    As the full moon calls, each cat slinks through the shadows to where the storyteller waits. Will you stay in your warm, cosy bed? Or dare you go and join the Scaredy Cats? Click the video and watch the tale of Frankatstein, the mad professor who dices with death, and the cats who get caught…

  • Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children’s Book

    Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children’s Book

    Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me. When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over. In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a…