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

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

    TONIGHT in Portsmouth there will be a fundraising auction held at St Jude’s School with some Tony Spears goodies as Lot 44, and lots of other lovely *ahem* lots… Get down there and help a local school!  

Enjoying the ink I bought from #atlantisartmaterials drawing the cover of the new Tony Spears book… ✏️🚀✨😄 #inkdrawing #TonySpears #artwork #bookcover #neallayton #hodderchildrensbooks @hodderbooks #kidslit #youngfiction #bookstagram #childrensbooks A photo posted by @neal_layton on Oct 6, 2016 at 9:24pm PDT