So where am I?

It’s now more than a week since I returned from the wilderness. This week was rather busy with the Cheltenham Literary Festival and a school visit in Surrey and I’m off to another school tomorrow. In my thoughts though I’m still in woods in the Czech Republic.

I’m trying to go through my notes and sketches. When I’m looking back I have quite a few ideas in my sketch book, but it’s still early days to say if anything will come out of it. I quite fancy doing a book about a goat.

I mentioned last week the billy goat who came to visit me and ate all the plants he could. I did some sketches. They are not brilliant, but I had an idea for a book.

This week I was also looking at the board book I’m working on. It’s always hard to start working again on something you haven’t touched for weeks.

I feel that I’m almost there.

I also wanted to mention the visit in Surrey. It was a lovely small infant school in Ewhurst. The teachers were nice and so were the children. It works like that often actually. With the children from year 1 and 2 we did a picture. It was based on my book Butterfly, Butterfly. Here you can see the work in progress. I started with a picture of Lucy and the butterfly.The children then finished it off. It’s always fun to work with the little ones when you encourage them a bit. We had butterflies in all the colours of rainbow, bugs wearing hats, snails on skateboards, spiders and even a monkey on a tree. How the monkey got there I don’t know, since it was supposed to be just about insects, but the monkey was little and it fitted in well.