Thanks to everyone at Puffin Books for their simmering summer party last night.

Those crazy koalas are back…! Koala Calamity – Surf’s Up is written by Jonathan Meres, illustrated by Neal Layton and published by Harper Collins Children’s Books as part of their Awsome Animals series.  

Yesterday I spent an enjoyable and enlightening afternoon with my agent Alison Eldred at the London Book Fair. After some pre-arranged meetings we strolled around the rest of the stands, a great way to gain an overview of what’s going on in the publishing world. I was suprised at how busy and bustling it was. […]

  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. […]

Some collage for the latest book I’m working on; possibly the tastiest art materials I’ve ever purchased! (If you live in Southsea and have a sweet tooth this is the shop to visit…)  

Some more photos from the forthcoming stage production of The Story of Everything. Hand painted ichythostega costume by visual artist Silvana Toneva. Look it’s grown legs! And arms! Here is my drawing of ichythostega that the costume is based on.  

Here are some photos of the musical trilobites from the forthcoming stage production of The Story of Everything. This yellow one is the guitarist, this green one plays the acordian, and here is the drummer!   Well done to all the Theater an de Parkaue team. I think they look fantastic! The show opens in Berlin 9th April […]

  THEATER AN DER PARKAUE, Berlin’s State Theatre for Children, are staging a production of The Story of Everything. The show opens 9th April of this year and will run till Sunday 14th April, with an extra show on the 6th May. The show will feature a talking sponge, a singing trilobite choir and much […]