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Welcome to Berlin!

My first visit to Berlin resulted in my first chalk lettering. What fun!

There’s more to Ken Wilson-Max’s Lenny Goes to Nursery School (Frances Lincoln, £9.99), with its jolly little hero successfully making it through his first full day away from home. A multi-coloured cast of characters have an equally good time in this picture book, also sturdily produced.- Nicholas Tucker, The independent on Sunday IT’S never too early to read…… Continue reading First reviews for Lenny books

New For July, 2013

Two new Lenny Books; Lenny Goes to School & Where’s Lenny? Available in the UK from July… These two tittles took a little time but came together very well. It’s still thrilling to see your own work in print! K

Summer Events

I have two important events this summer. One is Pop Up 2013 and the other, running parallel to the announcing of the Carnegie Greenaway 2013 Medal Winner, is happening tomorrow, June 19 at Platform on Hornsey Road in North london. Schools have had the chance to look over the shortlist and will be making their own…… Continue reading Summer Events

African Mythical Creatures: a Recap

I haven’t had much time to add tot he growing collection these last few weeks, so I thought it would be good to show you the set so far in one blog post. ‘m going to be making some 3-d versions of these for a school event on June 19th. It should be fun! Details…… Continue reading African Mythical Creatures: a Recap

Rita Pierson: Every Kid Needs a Champion

http://youtu.be/SFnMTHhKdkw Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.'” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.