Exhibition At The Ark!

Explore the curious and creative world of books at the fantastic Picture Book Exhibition, it's 

on at The Ark for the month of April called Telling Tale and Tiny Tales.  

There's some fantastic Picture Book illustrations there including Marie Louise Fitzpatrick, Oliver Jeffers and myself. 

You can see behind the scenes of what goes into making a picture book including rough doodles, original concept artwork and a teeny tiny dummy book from The Ravenous Beast. It is open every weekend! For booking contact The Ark on 6707788.

 Original art from The Ravenous Beast

  Original art from The Ravenous Beast

original concept and doodles 

Mini dummy and roughs...

Eve Mc Quillan enjoys the show...

The Ravenous Beast DVD

The Ravenous Beast comes now with a free DVD. Check it out! Let me know what you think?

Signed Stories

Signed Stories is a new and really exciting initiative developed by ITV to make contemporary children's books more accessible to deaf children by presenting them in sign language and streaming them onto a website.
I was delighted when I found out that my book The Ravenous Beast animated DVD was to be one of the first titles. It is brilliantly signed by Khalid Ashraf, he really captures the story wonderfully. You can find The Ravenous Beast here on the toddler page and here on the slimy scary page!
No child should be without stories in their lives, I believe that this project will make a huge difference and I am delighted to be part of it.
Please visit the Signed Stories site and tell all your friends about it.