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Yesterday I spent the day working out of the studio.
It was all because of a surprise phone call I got a couple of months back, from someone I've not seen in quite a few years...
Tom Barber is the librarian at Ellis Guilford secondary school, in Nottingham, but he is also an author. These days he is working on a novel but, several years ago, we published a picture book together, called Open Wide!. It was all about a little boy who is scared of going to the dentist. We did a sequel too, Playground Prairie. Sadly that one never got as far as the bookshops: it stumbled and fell at the last post.
I got all the artwork finished and approved. Publication day was looming invitingly, when suddenly the publisher, Chrysalis, got into financial difficulties. They eventually got bought out, but our project (along with various others I'm sure) was shelved, as sometimes happens in these circumstances. Very sad (and not a little frustrating). But I digress...
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Today John and I have been getting all the artwork together for my exhibition in Salford, which opens in July.
Many of the pieces I'm showing are the same as the Tameside show, so they are still in their mounts and just needed getting out of storage, but I wanted to update the show by adding pieces from two more recent books: Bears on the Stairs and Dragon's Dinner. I have substituted 4 images from each of these for older pieces (mainly from books like Kangaroo's Cancan Cafe and Open Wide, which sadly have now gone out of print).
I got John to dig around in my drawers (Ooo, Missus!) and find the relevant new spreads, then we gave them a once-over and he packaged them all up for me, ready for collection by a courier.
I don't generally exhibit my artwork, as the framing costs can be prohibitive, but the frames for this show have been provided by the original gallery in Tameside, so luckily that's one less thing to worry about.
Yesterday I spent the day working out of the studio. 
This sounds like an amazing day, I would loved to have taken part even though im not a child, would have been very helpful for illustrators trying to get into childrens illustration I think!
What an super day and great that you were part of it! Sounds like everyone had a lot of fun! Thanks for the link to the shadowing site - I just watched Catherine Rayner reading Ernest - what a fun book!