Illustrator and author Neal Layton introduces his event at the Isle of Wight Story Festival 2025. Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence but what exactly is it? This fun and accessible picture book helps tech savvy kids aged 6+ make sense of AI and understand why their human brain is so very special.

A short introduction to Neal’s upcoming Meet the Author sessions with Hampshire School Library Service.

REALLY looking forward to this! If you’re stuck for things to do on half-term and fancy a trip to the beautiful #IsleofWight there are lots of wonderful authors doing events. There are a few tickets left for my event, but going fast… it would be great to see you there!

My letter from lockdown written for the Childrens Bookshow.

Home schoolers! On Wednesday I’m going to read my book ‘A Planet Full of Plastic’ on YouTube. The film will go up 11am GMT and remain for 24 hours to let folk around the world watch it. link to my YouTube here See you soon, thanks Neal #UnitedbyBooks #BooktrustHometime

View this post on Instagram #Repost @childrensbkshow with @get_repost ・・・ Oh me oh my! What a morning in Stafford with the fabulous author and illustrator @neal_layton . It was fascinating to hear how he works and listen to his brilliant books Stanley’s Stick and The Tree · #readersoftomorrow #primaryschool #writing #reading #childrensliterature #childrensbooks #thechildrensbookshow #picturebooks […]

View this post on Instagram Tomorrow morning I’ll be on this stage talking to 500 children about my work, and yep, I’m feeling a tad apprehensive… because I want the event to go well! …and the children to come away feeling inspired by reading, and drawing and art. If I can do that, I’ll feel […]

Big Thanks to #haylingislandbookshop for the pop-up shop in #Romsey today…📕📚📕📚✍️ A post shared by Neal Layton (@neal_layton) on Jul 9, 2018 at 9:00am PDT