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).

"Goldilocks and just the one Bear" advance copies!

yee-ha - so what a lovely thing to arrive in the post this morning! 

...my advance copies for my first (of many i hope) books with the superduper Nosy crows.

also squeezed into the envelope were a couple of the greek edition. and may i say what a splendid job they did on the hand lettering.

 Thank you Ikaros books!

I dedicated this book to my brand new shiny nephew elliot. he is a real beauty,
I do hope he likes this little bear booky surprise!

just as an after note- this was a tricky book for me as i had a big trauma half way through it. my stupid rubbish hard drive malfunctioned with ALL my artwork on (oh, and a year of my little girls baby photos...don't ask, that is a whole different kettle of fish).

 so i had to start all over again. this was really really hard, but worth it as i am really pleased with this book. actually, i am doubly as proud of myself as i have worked twice as hard. so my plea to you all out there is BACK UP YOUR WORK/PHOTOS/ANYTHING PRECIOUS- as sometimes clever technology is utterly stupid and unreasonable.

 anyway- the book is out in march.... i really hope you will like it too

ps, thank you nice big green sofa so looking so nice in the backgrounds of the photos.

Don't put your pants on your head fred!

so.... "Don't put your Pants on your Head Fred" is out out out!

it is the second collaboration with the loverly Caryl Hart and is the follow up to
"Don't put your Chips in your Drink Kate!"
it is about getting dressed, soldiers and most importantly.... PANTS!

Edinburgh book festival 2010

I was lucky enough to be invited to the Edinburgh book festival again this year.

It is the most amazing place at the best of times, but with the Book festival on, it is EVEN more magical... sigh..

anyway, I did a workshop about Sunny McClouds "SMILE!" story.

Here are a few snippysnaps and little facts of the day...

We read stories

We played games (stick the smile on the Sunny)

We made spare smiles incase our own smiles ever get lost (it does happen)

We made paper Sunnys

... all in an hour! (nice and jam packed).

Then I got excited about seeing a gaggle of my books perched on shelves.

(Especially the shiny new ones "SCRUMMY!" and "LIMELIGHT LARRY")

Then I signed some books (without making any smudgey mistakes thank goodness).

I hope everyone enjoyed it.

I did!

SCRUMMY! now in the shops!

Scrummy! is the new Sunny McCloud story.

It is all about families and sandwiches (two of my favourite things by the way).

mnnnn..... making this book made me PECKISH!

LIMELIGHT LARRY IS OUT!

wooohooo!

so limelight larry is out out OUT!

if you want to see a REAL show off, then this book is for YOU!

an additional treat is the little animation trailer i made for limlight larry...

(well i did say he was a show off!)

Limelight Larry from Beakus on Vimeo.

Larry is comming SOOOOON!

Limelight Larry (my book about a show-off peacock) is nearly nearly really out.... exciting stuff!
have a peep at the

Limelight Larry advert on Angels & Urchines weekly!

PANTS!

a plethora of pant...

SCRUMMY!

So, my new Sunny McCLoud book "SCRUMMY!" is out in september 2010
to celebrate this fact, Orchard have cooked up some scrummy sandwhichy fun.
mmmn... making me a little peckish....

Scrummy end papers

here are the end papers of the new Sunny McCloud book "SCRUMMY" thati have just finished.
(All about food, sandwiches and families)
A bit of a shame as these end papers i LOVE - but we aren't going to use them.
Will have to come up with some new ones.
ah well...

LIMELIGHT LARRY poster!

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

"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!)

ooh what a pleasing window display at the Owl Bookshop Kentish Town

crumbs.... what good company I am with-
I had better behave myself

new book out!

some paper cutouts having a look round the book

i have made some crafty cutouts in preperation for my SMILE! event at the Polka Dot theatre in a few weeks.

leighs polka dot theatre event

"smile" and"colin and the wrong shadow" out in paperback in the shoppy shops NOW!

booktrust interview

to read the booktrust interview do clicky here

sigh.... always charlie and lola, well it is a great show.