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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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!