Printing some limited edition screenprints of Emily Brown & Stanley today for the @hotwallsstudios #festive #pop-up at the Round Tower, Old Portsmouth next Saturday 3/12/16 where I will be signing books 📚😄 #screenprint #limitededition #silkscreens #printmaking #printworkshop #childrensbookillustrator #thatrabbitbelongstoemilybrown #emilybrown #emilybrownandstanley #hodderchildrens #kidslit #kidslitart #illustratorsofinstagram #hodderchildrensbooks #visitportsmouth @teamlocals A photo posted by Neal Layton (@neal_layton) […]

  Lovely to see ‘Danny McGee Drinks the Sea’ reviewed by Imogen Russell Williams of The Guardian in her last book round up of 2016!    

#Repost @hotwallsstudios with @repostapp ・・・ This time next week will be our first Festive Creative Market @hotwallsstudios – excited 🌵🎄🎄🍾🎈 A photo posted by @neal_layton on Nov 26, 2016 at 11:30pm PST

Really enjoying using my new/old dip pen nibs artworking the new Tony Spears book! #dippens #inkdrawing #artworks #theinvincibletonyspears #hodderchildrensbooks #neallayton #kidsbookstagram #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #childrensauthor #space #sciencefiction A photo posted by @neal_layton on Nov 23, 2016 at 10:35pm PST

Huge thanks to everyone who came to the recent Invincible Tony Spears event at Portsmouth Waterstones! Lots more Tony Spears events to come, watch this ‘space’ for details… Photo by @emilyshootsit Photo by @pompeybooks Photo by @sadie_tierney Photos by @G3Kopacz

Making giant dymo type for my event at Portsmouth Waterstones on Saturday! #lifeofanillistrator #theinvincibletonyspears #neallayton #authorevent #waterstones #portsmouth #hodderchildrensbooks #kidsbookstagram #childrensbooks A photo posted by @neal_layton on Nov 17, 2016 at 10:41pm PST

  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!    

  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!  

  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