Something scary

I’m in the middle of sketching my new book “Little Mouse and Something Scary”.

Little Mouse is a character which has appeared in my books previously, so it’s like hanging with an old friend, taking an old friend for a walk….for a walk in the woods.

Yes, the book could be a bit SCARY.

I love this part of work. Drawing the main characters, thinking about how to paint the background and still being able to listen to audiobook as I’m sketching.I always draw all the characters from the book first. This way I can keep the continuity of the character in the book.So as I’m working on my book, some other books have been published. I would like to mention one of them. The book is called “Perfect”.

The book was just published by the independent publisher “Graffeg”. It’s beautifully illustrated by Cathy Fisher and written by award-winning children’s author Nicola Davies.

But what is really interesting about the book is its subject. The book is about a disabled child being born. It’s a subject of great importance, close to many of us, because we all know of somebody who is, or was dealing with a similar issue. You would think, that a book like this would find a publisher easily, but the opposite is true. It took a long time, before a publisher brave enough to publish the book, was found.

You can listen to Nicola herself talking about the book here – click.

So CONGRATULATIONS to Nicola and Cathy and WELL DONE to Graffeg.

I’ll have to leave my book on my studio table for a couple of days, since I’m traveling to Bradford Literary Festival and I’m also visiting two schools on my way home. I’m looking forward to it. Wherever I go, I do get little presents from children – little drawings. I love children drawings.

These pictures are drawn by Vojta Kalenda age 9 and they are characters from my books. Pretty good, what do you think?