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Carbon Pricing – Be Careful What You Ask For – or: Why All Ways of Pricing Carbon Are Not The Same…..

“Why do fossil fuels continue to provide most of our energy? The reason is simple. Fossil fuels are the cheapest energy.” – James Hansen, leading climate scientist and former director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. This piece was … Continue reading →

Meet the Relatives

This post first appeared on Picture Book Den’s Blogspot. Today’s post is about all things insect. So: grit your mandibles, flex your feelers and close your compound eyes, we’re going in… Meeting the Insect Face In 1665 Robert Hooke published … Continue reading →

The Perils of Being a Toy

This post first appeared on Picture Book Den’s Blogspot. It’s not easy being a toy. You get mired in adventures out of your depths, dressed in outfits you never chose, and left in unlikely places by your forgetful owners. Toys … Continue reading →

Meet the Relatives

This September, the House of Illustration @illustrationHQ ran a competition inspired by John Vernon Lord’s ‘A Drawing a Day’ – the challenge was to make a 1 inch square picture every day. I reckoned drawing things that actually would fit … Continue reading →

A bit of leafy wolfy reading for Autumn….

Join the RestOfTheWorldists!

Bonzetta, Sketching Weakly’s Animals Correspondent, writes: This Empathy Day, let’s not forget all the non-human inhabitants of Planet Earth. The RestOfTheWorldists can’t talk, but someone needs to give them a voice.

The Last Wolf & Other Missing Animals

This post first appeared on Picture Book Den’s Blogspot. HALF OUR ANIMALS ARE MISSING! A few years ago an announcement came out in the news. According to the WWF Living Planet Report, since the 1970s more than half of the … Continue reading →

Magic and Storytelling

This post first appeared on Picture Book Den’s Blogspot. My book The Bad Bunnies is all about a magic show, and while I was making it I got really interested in the history of magic and how illusions are made. … Continue reading →

Sorrow at the Supermarket

Sketching Weakly’s new investigative journalist, Agatha Frizbee, is on the trail of another food-related mystery…    

What to do if you lose your favourite toy

You’d think it would be tricky to lose a blue whale, wouldn’t you? But my son Herbie and I managed it. The whale had been a favourite Christmas present from Herbie’s Auntie Mavis, who had found him at the Natural … Continue reading →