Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed has won both it’s category, and the overall prize at the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards today. Congratulations to Michael Rosen and all at Bloomsbury Childrens books, and a HUGE thank you to all the young readers who chose it!    

  Recently I was invited to help judge a countywide competion to design a new Children’s Library card for Hampshire. With over 80 amazing entries it was really REALLY difficult to choose winners, however we got there in the end and managed to select winners and highly commended in each age group. The finalists will recieve their prizes […]

  Emily Brown and the Thing are back on stage this Christmas! You can catch them at the Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot 6-24 December… After which the show will move on to Australia, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and the USA!   Here’s a poster about it…   And here’s a fab trailer!  

A new book means new badges! #dannymcgeedrinksthesea #andystanton #neallayton #hodderchildrensbooks #kidsbookstagram #childrensbooks #badges #kidslit #picturestorybook #childrensbookillustration A photo posted by @neal_layton on Nov 7, 2016 at 10:44pm PST

#Repost @hachettekids with @repostapp ・・・ We're at @thebookpeople's Bedtime Story competition ceremony! @neal_layton is doing a live Emily Brown! ❤️ A photo posted by @neal_layton on Nov 3, 2016 at 8:55am PDT

A #Repost from @gatopezlibreria – a bookshop specialising in illustration, based in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱 ・・・ “ÓSCAR Y ARABELLA” de Neal Layton, se une a nuestras #novedadesGATOPEZ #libroilustrado #libroalbum #neallayton #oscaryarabella #illustrations #mamut #mamuts #extinto #mani #elefantes #prehistoricos #ilustracion #illustration A photo posted by @neal_layton on Oct 26, 2016 at 11:01pm PDT

  The Tree has just gone up on my website… click HERE to read more about the book and have a peep inside!  

The studio is filling up with roughs for the new Tony Spears book… There’s going to be LOTS of illustrations in it! 🚀✨ #tonyspears #roughs #newbook #neallayton #hodderchildrensbooks #kidslit #kidslitart #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #booksofinstagram #theinvincibletonyspears #thebrillianttonyspears A photo posted by @neal_layton on Oct 23, 2016 at 10:12pm PDT

Choose-your-own-adventure type of books are not new, but a picture book that offers the same sort of interactive thrill is. Where the Bugaboo Lives gives little readers the chance to direct what happens to the two sibling protagonists Floyd and Ruby as they bravely navigate their way through a dark valley purportedly full of scary […]

A lovely response to my book The Invincible Tony Spears from #thebooksniffer !!!! 😊 Thank you! Repost @thebooksniffer with @repostapp ・・・ Blasting into my top ten illustrated fiction faves #TonySpears by @neal_layton published by Hodder Children’s Books 🚀🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 A photo posted by @neal_layton on Oct 13, 2016 at 7:41am PDT