orchard ad in japanese magasine

It is a full page ad in Japanese magazine called Kinokuniya
and was produced on behalf of Orchards special sales team.
Thank special sales team for using my cover illustration from picture book "Don't Dip your chips in your Drink Kate!"

LIMELIGHT LARRY poster!

oooh it has shiny foil on it too
in real life it glimmers and everything!

picture for eve

so what.... i like bunnies!

last day at my studio

all of this pegged up chaos and scruffy smudgey artwork has now been dismantled as i have left my lovely studio
(sniff sniff)
but now i get to work in my garden shed studio again
(yey!)
there are cats and squirrels and everything pottering about in the garden which is good
(and slugs too sometimes unfortunately)

"don't dip your chips in your drink kate!" launch in sheffield

Everyone who went to the launch got to gobble up one of these yummy looking cakes.
mmnn.... why didn't I go again? what a fool.
one of those cakes had my name on it I am sure.

here is Caryl Hart (the author of the book) reading the book.

this HUGE poster with fabulous colour in cakes that the children at the launch made is now on display in the Sheffield Library.

You can see more photos of the party and other fun bits and bobs on Caryls blog

Limelight Larry goes to Frankfurt!

Show off Limelight Larry is the star of my new picture book which will be out next year ....
He forced Orchard books to put him on the front of their Frankfurt Bookfair booklet.
(He doesn't realise how lucky he is).

I hope he didn't make a nuisance of himself at the bookfair and that he made lots of friends. (fingers crossed!)

what we did at the Smile! event (polka dot theatre)

here is just some of the fun bits and bobs we did that day...

we all coloured and snip snipped

we read the book and talked about what makes us smile (gazing at clouds, chocolate cake, funny jokes and watching dogs run about)

then i was starstruck and met the lovely Roger McGough (that made me smile by the way)
he signed his new book for me, and I signed my book for him (crumbs... fancy that!)

... ah, what a nice day (and what a pink cardigan)
i do hope that everyone else had a nice time, thanks for comming!

what a BRILLIANT place the Polka Dot Theatre is.
So much fun and creativity in one place.
I must go there again soon.