View this post on Instagram The play of “Emily Brown and the Thing” by @cressidacowellauthor & me is playing to a beautiful 100 year old theatre packed with children, just off Broadway, Times Square, New York – Keep having to pinch myself… we’re here with the kids to see the show. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The stuff of […]

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

Shutting up shop for the holidays… Wishing a very MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all! 🎄🎄👍👍🎅🏽🎅🏽🎁🎁 A post shared by Neal Layton (@neal_layton) on Dec 22, 2017 at 12:21pm 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

Preparing for an Easter getaway? Look out for the poetry points at Heathrow Airport! There are four pillars in terminals 2-5 each with specially written travel poems recited by their authors Michael Rosen, Danny Wallace, Laura Dockrill and MG Leonard. As you might have guessed I did the illustrations which feature cameos of some of the […]

  Whilst enjoying Timeout’s 100 best Children’s Books was overjoyed to see Emily Brown and Stanley on the list!    

  Practicing drawing Emily Brown and Stanley for a school visit next week…   IMG_7975 from Neal Layton on Vimeo.

  …all four Emily Brown books, have been re-printed with shiny new covers!    

Last week I was invited to speak at a ‘Power of Reading’ conference, run by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. It was really inspiring to meet all the teachers there, and see the valuable work CLPE does. Thank you for inviting me, and for the warm welcome! The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is a charity that provides training […]

‘On Thursday 2nd July Chichester High School for Girls had the illustrator / author Neal Layton visit the library. We were joined by three local primary schools who we have been working with on a transition project. ‘Neal’s talk was fascinating. He talked about the books he had written and illustrated the materials he uses […]