UPCOMING
EVENT: I will be at the Chorleywood Literary
Festival on Saturday November 8th at 2.30 pm to do a storytelling
session and book signing. More information here.

September
2008
I'm
back from the SOA's
CWIG conference in Cambridge (to the uninitiated: this stands
for The Society of Author's Children's Writers and Illustrators
Group). I'm on the CWIG committee, so my role was to be generally
helpful and welcoming. I also gave a talk on story-boarding for
picture books. Other speakers included Anthony Browne, David Almond,
Polly Dunbar, Philip Pullman and the Children's Laureate Michael
Rosen. It was great to meet so many other children's writers and
illustrators. Overall a great event: very stimulating and informative
(if slighly exhausting).

July 2008
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Zoo Lane DVD released in the US