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March 18th, 2016

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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 characters from my books– Emily Brown, Stanley Stick amongst others! And could I ask a favour? If anyone does happen to come across them please could you take a photo? I’d love to see what they look like.

Their locations are; T2 near World Duty Free, T3 near Rhubarb,  T4 near Gate 19, T5 near Fortnum & Mason Champagne bar.

More info about them here and here.

Designer Chaos Design.

 

 

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Stanley’s Stick is ‘an excellent bedtime read’ in Lauren Laverne’s house at the moment!

John Hegley pops up in conversation whilst Lauren and Tim Key discuss Russian Literature…

Sound clip here…

Or you can listen to the whole programme (which also features guests Caitlin Moran and Dave Okumu) here…

(The clip is 43.20 into the show)

Blimey!!!!

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Big Draw at Discover Centre

February 15th, 2016

 

Arrived in the post today from my agent- printed publicity for Discover’s Big Write Children’s Literature Festival including this A1 poster!

This year Michael Rosen has curated events so I drew the characters from his Rover books in various activities. As you can see there’s LOTS going on in the festival this year including appearances by Chris Riddell, Sam Lloyd, David Baddiel and of course Michael Rosen himself…

If you want to get involved check out their website for tickets here

And if you do go be sure to check out the ‘Bear Hunt, Chocolate Cake and Bad Things’ exhibition while you’re there- it’s amazing!

 

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

 

 

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Unboxing my new book 'The Tree'

February 10th, 2016

 

I was SO excited about this package arriving today that I decided to do a nerdy un-boxing video…

The bit not shown is me jumping around the studio afterwards whooping! THANK YOU WALKER BOOKS – I’m so happy with it!!!

 

Un-boxing the first copy of my new book ‘The Tree’ from Neal Layton on Vimeo.

Emily Brown Drawing

February 6th, 2016

 

Practicing drawing Emily Brown and Stanley for a school visit next week…

 

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All six of the ‘Animal Science’ series of books by Nicola Davies have been re-published in a new larger format!

Hats off to the design team at Walker Books for not only creating their new look , but also changing the format from landscape to portrait…

 

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A New Look for the New Year…

January 21st, 2016

 

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

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Just arrived from Tokyo…

November 19th, 2015

Mammoth Academy in Japanese!

(Thanks to Andy Sharp at Hodder for the photo)

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Big Draw at Discover

October 30th, 2015

Last weekend I was invited to paint a mural at the Discover centre as part of The Big Draw, the world’s biggest drawing festival.

This year’s theme was ‘every drawing tells story’ so I drew an enormous ‘Batholomew Bear’, surrounded by lots of bees and flowers, to help highlight the current plight of bees.

We didn’t have long, only 2 and half hours to get it all finished! But thankfully I had done lots of planning beforehand, and had lots of help on the day with children drawing bees and flowers, and my agents and wife lending a hand with the painting…

If you want to draw or colour in your own bees, there are some worksheets to download here.

And if you missed the event there’s a time lapse film below so you can see how it was made.

 

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