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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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.
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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…
Filed under: Animal Science, Deadly, Just the Right Size, Neal Layton, Nicola Davies, Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentionable, Walker Books | Comment (0)
Mammoth Academy in Japanese!
(Thanks to Andy Sharp at Hodder for the photo)
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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.
Filed under: Arena, Bartholomew and the Bug, Hodder Children's Books, Neal Layton, Sadie Tierney | Comment (0)
