
GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES • New UK Picture Book
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 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

I’m delighted to report that The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers, written by me and Dr Adam S. Smith, illustrated by Stieven Van der Poorten and published by UCLan Publishing won the “Children’s Book

The US edition of Number Train, my lift the flap concertina book illustrated by Ingela P Arrhenius, is published by Nosy Crow today. Like my first two books with Ingela, Alphabet
AUTHORS BEWARE! If you receive a flattering email about your book, it may be written by an AI posted on 30 July 2025
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GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES • New UK Picture Book posted on 06 August 2026
“The Library for Boys and Girls” – Nottingham’s Pioneering 19th Century Children’s Lending Library posted on 20 August 2021
The UK’s First Children’s Lending Library Plaque is Unveiled. posted on 04 May 2022
Gift-Wrapped Picture Book Characters Quiz posted on 01 December 2024
20 Years of BRINGING DOWN THE MOON posted on 03 September 2021
THE PRINCESS AND THE PIG, HERE BE MONSTERS & PRINCE RIBBIT: New Paperback Editions posted on 23 May 2022Dispatch & Delivery
Books will be sent by Evri and should take 2–4 working days to arrive after dispatch. I’m generally able to dispatch orders within two working days of receiving them, but if I’m away from home, books will not be signed and dispatched until my return. If you place an order while I’m away for more than a week, you should receive an email telling you when the order will be dispatched and giving you the option to cancel and receive a full refund.