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!
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.
Michael Rosen has made some fab films introducing his book Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed. Click to links to find out more about Malcom, Crackersnacker and Uncle Gobb and their genies!
Last week I was invited to speak at a ‘Power of Reading’ conference, run by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. It was really inspiring to meet all the teachers there, and see the valuable work CLPE does. Thank you for inviting me, and for the warm welcome!
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is a charity that provides training and support for primary school teachers and others that work in primary schools.
