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.

‘A Climate in Chaos’ is published this week. Here’s a short film explaining a bit about the book… A Climate in Chaos is published by  Wren and Rook

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

I’m very proud to have my work on show at Seven Stories in Newcastle at the moment, as part of Drawing Words, a travelling exhibition showcasing work from 10 various illustrators from the U.K.   Journalist student Courtney Huck wrote a short piece about the exhibition below… Drawing Words, an exhibition currently being featured by Seven Stories, differs from past […]

#Repost @_thebookseller (@get_repost) ・・・ Danny McGee Drinks the Sea by Andy Stanton and Neal Layton (illus) is our children’s previewer Fiona Noble’s July Book of the Month. She said: “It’s a wonderfully anarchic reimagining of the “Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” and has all the makings of a monster summer hit. The playful, rambunctious […]

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) […]

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

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

    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 […]