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

Lovely insta-review of Bartholomew and the Bug by @thestoriesweread … #Repost @thestoriesweread with @repostapp ・・・ We have a bit of a fascination with bugs going on at the moment. Our observant two year old squeals as he spots flies or ants outside and crouches down low to watch what they do. I love seeing his […]

  Some wonderful reviews of  ‘The Tree’ from Books for Keeps and Inis Magazine. Huge thanks to both publications, I’m so glad you enjoyed this book… 🙂          

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 […]

    The Guardian Childrens Book Site have just published a piece showing how I made my latest picture storybook ‘The Tree’ in pictures. ‘The Tree’ is published by Walker Chidren’s Books.