West Cork Literary Festival

I had an amazing few days down in Bantry a few weeks ago. There was an exhibition of original artwork from The Ravenous Beast on display in Bantry Library as part of The West Cork Literary Festival. You can see myself and team Ravenous Beast in front of the artwork here. The children were amazing and made their own picture books based on The Ravenous Beast. We also drew a lot of Hugglewugs!

Go on the Beast!

The Ravenous Beast has been shortlisted for the Coventry Inspirational Books Award 2010! Its in the Never too Young Category (0-4 years). It's really cool as it is you the readers who get to vote. It will be live on October 5th.

WOW!

Children's Books Ireland book day was in Farmleigh yesterday and the kids did amazing work! It was so great to have a large work space, huge canvases, and brilliant art materials to work with. THANK YOU CBI!!!!

We immediately got stuck in. Myself and Addie Geoghegan drew a simple outline of a tree with empty branches. The kids had to fill in the spaces with bugs and birds. A mixture of ink, paint, glue, glitter, gloopy mess, cotton wool, giant markers helped them fill in the blanks!!!

There was a real spontaneous creativity,  the kids who came along did an amazing job! The top image is the older age group 7-10 years and the bottom two images are the 4-6 years olds. The are really fantastic, I was blown away by the freedom of using large canvasses and art materials.