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February
2006
Cori
Chertoff sent me some lovely hippo collage artwork made by the children
at the Dream Jam Book Club in New York. Click on the image below
to see all the artwork.

Henrietta
the Hairy Hippo: Crazy hairdo Art Activity

January
2006
And here are
the winners of the Dragon Drawing Competition:
Angus
from Northwood wins 1st prize, a signed Dear
Dragon hardback. Three runners up, Karan from Pinner, Tomas
from Hove and Glen from North Harrow, each win a signed paperback.
Congratulations!
 
 
Click
here to see more great dragon drawings!

December
2005
'FROM LLUSTRATION
TO ANIMATION' Exhibition 10 December 05 to 4 March 06
Artwork from my books
and films will be exhibited in the 'Illustration to animation' exhibition,
part of the Animated
Exeter festival. The exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial
Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter will feature pictures from '64
Zoo Lane' and 'Tiger!' alongside work from other artists including
Raymond Briggs, John Burningham, Posy Simmonds, Helen Craig, Lauren
Child and Mike Brownlow.

October
2005
My website is now moving
and grooving thanks to Flash animator Polly Holt. Hunt through this
site to discover 5 animated mice!

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2005
I just
had to display these lovely pictures of 64 Zoo Lane murals sent
to me by Falguni in Kenton!


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July 2005 Some
pictures of the successful Dear Dragon event at Uxbridge Central
Library. Many thanks to Cathy Ranson of Sunshine Magazine who organised
the event and to Sali
Splat who puts kids inside bubbles!

And below is a picture
of a booksigning at the Children's Bookshop in Pinner.

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July 2005
The 2nd
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Georgina
the Giraffe
Pauline the Pelican
The Juicy Fruit Tree
The Elephant Bird
Ronald and the Tic Tic Bird
Audrey's Egg
Molly and Nathalie
Wally the Wombat The
Jungle Clearing Region
2 encoding (Europe, Japan, South Africa and the Middle East including
Egypt) |
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June
2005
Dear Dragon is published!
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Hodder
Children's Books
It's
Princess Florrie's birthday and she wants something a little out-of-the-ordinary
for her party. She is not interested in jugglers, jesters and acrobats.
She fancies something dreadful - like a dragon. So Florrie decides
to write a letter to the dragon in the nearby woods and ask him. |
A sumptuously illustrated picture book with lots of bubble fun!
Colouring
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I
have added two new pages to the 'All about An' section of my website,
including this holiday snap of a family visit to Egypt. To see pictures
of myself aged six in a stripy jumper, a bouncing sheep, guinea pigs
past and present, editions of my books in Chinese and Dutch, and MUCH,
MUCH more visit
ALL ABOUT AN (well almost all). |
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January
2005
The
64 Zoo Lane TV series is now showing in the US on Noggin,
a commercial-free educational channel dedicated to preschoolers,
available on digital cable and satellite.

October
2004
The
Lost Acorns is published! |
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Oxford
University Press
Squirrel
always forgets where he buries his winter store of acorns. So this
year he marks the spot with a special signpost. But Squirrel forgets
to tell his friends, and they have other uses for his signpost...
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May
2004
The first
64 Zoo Lane video/DVD is now available. It features 8 episodes:
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Nelson
the Elephant
Kevin the Crocodile
Joey the Kangaroo
Snowbert the Polar Bear
Henrietta the Hairy Hippo
Giggles and Tickles
Zed the Zebra
Adam the Armadillo
Region
2 encoding (Europe, Japan, South Africa and the Middle East including
Egypt)
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Buy
the 64 Zoo Lane DVD from Amazon.uk

March
2004
Smile,
Crocodile, Smile has won the Nottingham
Children's Book Award. An
Vrombaut visited Nottingham on 31st March for the Award Day.

Accepting my award from
Keith Valentine of Experian.

Brushing the teeth of
the Mayor of Nottingham with a crocodile toothbrush!

With the children of
Merrivale Nursery School
Check out the wonderful
crocodile drawings the children made!

January
2004
'Little
Wolf', An Vrombaut's award winning first film, has been included
in 'Starting Stories', a film and literacy resource for three to
seven year olds. The VHS compilation, featuring five delightful
short films, is accompanied by teaching notes and is available
from bfi
education.
'Little Wolf ' is also part of the
Animation Session performed by An at school visits.

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