And the winner is ….

Salvatore Rubbino! He won the IBW children’s book award. CONGRATULATIONS! “A Walk in Paris” is a beautiful book publish by Walker Books, so let the best one win!

 

Meanwhile  I have to be happy with being shortlisted with “The Mouse Who Ate the Moon”. And I’m happy!

People running independent book shops are people who know their books and they are good at what they do.

They have to be since it is not easy to be able to compete with big booksellers these days . You have to put in a bit extra to stand out.

“LONG LIVE INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOPS!”

Over the last couple of weeks I was painting a farmer’s family for my next bookand I also finished a couple of illustrations for Nicola Davies’ and my book “My First Book of Animals”.

Here is an ostrich and a hummingbird. Did you know that a hummingbird is as big as an aye of an ostrich?

I have painted little turtles

and a big owl.I love Nicola’s poems. The text is inspiring me to do my best.

Here are ants.

I know woods in the Czech Republic where ants’ nests are so big that they can reach up to my waist and I’m quite a tall man.

Talking big, here is a Komodo dragon and a drawing of a sleeping lion. I’m also finishing off pictures of bees, elephants, monkeys but more about that next time.Just one more picture. This is a new fan of board books – Guy Harrison. He knows a good book when he sees it!