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

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

Much excitement in the Layton household with the arrival of the 1st copy of ‘Danny McGee Drinks the Sea!’ A new picture book made with the amazing, and very silly Andy Stanton… 😄 #dannymcgeedrinksthesea #andystanton #neallayton #hodderchildrensbooks @hodderbooks #picturestorybook #kidslit #new A photo posted by @neal_layton on Oct 6, 2016 at 2:11am PDT

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

Designing the interior of Tony Spears’ spaceship for my latest book. Now where should I put those super-mega-rockets…?🚀✨ #theinvincibletonyspears #neallayton #hodderchildrensbooks #kidslitart #illustration #childrensbooks #spaceship #childrensauthor #kidslit #youngfiction #chapterbooks #new A photo posted by @neal_layton on Sep 27, 2016 at 10:47pm PDT

Thanks to everyone who came to the recent Tony Spears event at the wonderful Book Nook in Hove! Lots more Tony Spears events to come, watch this ‘space’ for details…

    With the first Tony Spears Book being published today, I thought I’d write a blog post giving a bit more background to the story… I’ve been working on this new series for about 3 years now but I guess it’s actually the culmination of my life long interest in space exploration, and science fiction, and the games I used to […]