National Literacy Trust have made an amazing Early Years writing resource based around Stanley’s Stick, and it’s FREE. Please share with any educators who might be interested!

With awe inspiring music written by Northern Chamber Orchestra

You can find the resource here.

A short introduction to Neal’s upcoming Meet the Author sessions with Hampshire School Library Service.

Spotted in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence… quite a place to find my books!

Thanks for the photo Arena

Lovely thoughtful review of my book The Tree…

REALLY looking forward to this!

If you’re stuck for things to do on half-term and fancy a trip to the beautiful #IsleofWight there are lots of wonderful authors doing events. There are a few tickets left for my event, but going fast… it would be great to see you there!

I recently worked with a friend at Sustrans and Public Health Dorset to help illustrate a campaign to improve air quality outside schools.

The idea was to help children and their families understand the impact of air pollution, what causes it and how it can be reduced. One of the key aims being to raise awareness about the impact of leaving a car engine running when parked, especially outside schools.

They created lots of content- toolkits and info sheets – and  I created the illustration which will go on banners outside schools.

If you want to find out more you can click this link

I thought they did a brilliant job – with a difficult subject, and I know air quality is also a big issue countrywide…

Really looking forward to appearing #ventnorfringe festival next week… on a BOOKBUS!

Along with LOADS of cool stuff…

More details to follow…https://t.co/w174kdv088

— Neal Layton (@LaytonNeal) July 21, 2022

So happy to see my book amongst this FAB selection!