The Story of Stars has been shortlisted for the Information Book Award 2014! The Information Book Award is an annual event, now in its fourth year. Schools will be invited to take part in the Children’s Choice voting from June to mid-September with the award ceremony taking place in the autumn. You can find […]

The Story of Stars in Spanish!  

The Story of Stars has been longlisted for the 2014 INFORMATION BOOK AWARD! The Information Book Award is an annual event, in its fourth year and is a major development for information books, designed to support school libraries and to reinforce the importance of non-fiction whilst highlighting the high standard of resources available. The Story […]

Throughout October I was illustrator of the month in the wonderful Storytellers Inc. bookshop in Lytham St Anne’s. If you want to find out more about this lovely bookshop, or read an interview they did with me, click here!

  Northern Chamber Orchestra in conduction with the Buxton Festival have made a wonderful musical version of Stanley’s Stick which they have been performing to preschool and reception classes. Their next performance will be on October 28th at the opera house in Buxton. Book now to avoid disappointment! You can also see lots more photos […]

The Story of Stars is published today! Click HERE to see some more inside pics coutesy of my agent Arena…  

‘The Story of Stars!’

Yesterday afternoon I read my forthcoming pop-up book The Story of Stars to the Warthogs class of Cumberland Infants School. This is the first time the book has ever been aired in public, and I’m glad to say it received an enthusiastic response, provoking lots of questions and debate! I’m afraid everyone else will have […]

  NEWFLASH for all Mammoth Academy fans… Sardine Productions partners with TVO to develop a MAMMOTH children’s series. “Montreal-based Sardine Productions has signed a development deal with TVO, Ontario’s public educational media organization, to take The Mammoth Academy from a book series to a children’s television series.   “Woolly mammoths Oscar and Arabella, along with their […]

A photo from the forthcoming production of The Story of Everything; out of the inky blackness appears megaloceros and the apes! Wow! The Story of Everything: From the Big Bang until now with pop-up and pop-music By Neal Layton, in a version by Judith Wilske and Maren Simoneit, from the English Language by Manuel Thannheiser. […]