a nice letter in the post

lovely letter from a colin fan
some good story ideas... i love the sticky situation one!

thanks evan-  you made my day (even though it was a shock to discover i was a man after all these years)

ruby parents

so my parents are amazing
and have been married for 40 whole entire actual earth years.
wowzers what super heroes
x

tea troll

a sneaky look at the illustrations i am doing at the moment for my new book for nosy crow.
this is a reformed troll drinking tea in a very sophisticated manner.

i can't say anything else as it is meant to be a big hushy
the book will be published sometime in the future (maybe next autumn) when we will all be wearing tinfoil space suits (ok, it will just be me wearing a tinfoil suit then).

bookbabblers interview

so, this is an prime example how i live my life doing doggy paddle and trying to keep my head above water!
this interview went live at the start of march.... it is now the end of march i have only just gotten around to blogging about it!

ah well, better later than never as they say.

so, have a little read of it on the lovely bookbabblers website if you are interested/nosey/need a distraction.

lovely scrummy review

lovely Scrummy review from beady-eye -reader and avid picture book-drinker-upper supreme librarymice
thank you librarymice!

my adopted bear!

what a lovely parcel i did get in the post.
i opened up the little box and look what i found inside... why only a lovely little bear.
so it seems i have adopted a real live actual proper bear.
i am so excited!
i got some bear postcards and bear info and everything also.
but who was it from, surely there was a mistake? i didn't order a bear did i?
it was only from my fab publisher nosy crow to say congratulations on the publication of my new book
"goldilocks and just the one bear".

aw.......... you guys are great!
x
ps the little bear is called Parker

reading agency summer reading challenge

whoop whoop!
lucky old one bear... his "Goldilocks and just the one bear" book has been selected as one of the 4 Nosy Crow titles in the reading agencies summer reading challenge 2012!

goody goody.