Arrived in the post today from my agent- printed publicity for Discover’s Big Write Children’s Literature Festival including this A1 poster! This year Michael Rosen has curated events so I drew the characters from his Rover books in various activities. As you can see there’s LOTS going on in the festival this year including […]

  Whilst enjoying Timeout’s 100 best Children’s Books was overjoyed to see Emily Brown and Stanley on the list!    

  I was SO excited about this package arriving today that I decided to do a nerdy un-boxing video… The bit not shown is me jumping around the studio afterwards whooping! THANK YOU WALKER BOOKS – I’m so happy with it!!!   Un-boxing the first copy of my new book ‘The Tree’ from Neal Layton […]

  Practicing drawing Emily Brown and Stanley for a school visit next week…   IMG_7975 from Neal Layton on Vimeo.

  All six of the ‘Animal Science’ series of books by Nicola Davies have been re-published in a new larger format! Hats off to the design team at Walker Books for not only creating their new look , but also changing the format from landscape to portrait…  

  …all four Emily Brown books, have been re-printed with shiny new covers!    

Mammoth Academy in Japanese! (Thanks to Andy Sharp at Hodder for the photo)

Last weekend I was invited to paint a mural at the Discover centre as part of The Big Draw, the world’s biggest drawing festival. This year’s theme was ‘every drawing tells story’ so I drew an enormous ‘Batholomew Bear’, surrounded by lots of bees and flowers, to help highlight the current plight of bees. We didn’t have long, only 2 and […]

Michael Rosen has made some fab films introducing his book Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed. Click to links to find out more about Malcom, Crackersnacker and Uncle Gobb and their genies! All videos made by Joe Rosen.

Last week I was invited to speak at a ‘Power of Reading’ conference, run by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. It was really inspiring to meet all the teachers there, and see the valuable work CLPE does. Thank you for inviting me, and for the warm welcome! The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is a charity that provides training […]