The US edition of One Cat, Two Cats my rhyming, lift-the-flap, pop-up, counting book illustrated by Rob Hodgson is published by Nosy Crow today! Where most counting books stop at ten,
Today, Friday the 2nd of October, is the 25th anniversary of the publication of Bringing Down the Moon, the picture book illustrated by Vanessa Cabban and published by Walker Books. The
I have a new novelty book coming out in the UK today! Spooky Street is illustrated by Ingela P Arrhenius and published by Nosy Crow. The US edition, called Halloween
I have a new novelty book coming out in the UK today! One Dog, Two Dogs is a rhyming, lift-the-flap, pop-up, counting book, illustrated by Rob Hodgson and published by
I have a new book out in paperback in the UK! Great Dinosaur Mistakes is my third book co-written with palaeontologist Adam Smith, and the second book Adam and I
I’ve just received the July 2024 – June 2025 UK library loans figures for my books, courtesy of the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme. My top 5 most borrowed books
I have a new picture book out in paperback in the UK and hardcover in the US! Monster Makeovers is a Halloween rhyming story, illustrated by Rae Minos and published
I have a new novelty book coming out in the UK today! One Cat, Two Cats is a rhyming, lift-the-flap, pop-up, counting book, illustrated by Rob Hodgson and published by
I received a series of emails yesterday which I now know to be AI generated and suspect to be part of a phishing scam, so I’m flagging them up here
I’ve just received the July 2023 – June 2024 UK library loans figures for my books, courtesy of the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme. My top 5 most borrowed books
This quiz is a modified version of a quiz that was originally published on Picture Book Den in 2017. Following on from last week’s quiz, here’s another set of picture
This quiz was originally published on Picture Book Den in 2018. When I was a child, part of the excitement of the run-up to Christmas was shaking and squeezing the
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