BookFest Fever!

It's Book Festival time! I am the official Book Festival Illustrator. For this year’s poster competition CBI are asking you to come up with a name for the book-eating monster who appears on the Children’s Book Festival poster. You could win some fantastic prizes for your school or library! Enter here!

For my BookFest tour dates I'll be visiting libraries in Dublin and Cork this year. I am also one of the illustrators exhibiting at Images Beyond Borders, a new exhibition of illustrations from children’s literature, featuring work by Irish and Austrian illustrators. It is the result of an exciting collaboration between the Irish children’s books laureate, Laureate na nÓg, Siobhán Parkinson, and the Austrian Embassy, and will run for three weeks. The exhibition of orignal art including the Book Eating Monster opens at The No Grants Gallery in Temple Bar this Friday at 7pm. Info here.

Doodle Fever!

Doodling across Ireland, I had a fantastic Book Festival thanks to the Libraries and arts festivals. Highlights include the Family doodle in Castlebar, making books in Nenagh and the children who came to the Fingal libraries. At Castlebar Roolaboola festival I showed young and old how to draw a Hugglewug at the Family Doodle. They painted brilliant family self portraits.
This year for the libraries I focused on older groups, focusing on illustration and bookmaking. We came up with sequels for The Ravenous Beast, some really funny ones. Spreading the word on how great picture books are!
Will post up photos later. My cameras batteries need a charging. OOps!