Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award

Hiya,

Quick post here about the Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award which was announced last night.

Winners are here:

There's some good stuff there.

Illustrators whose work I've come across already are -

Claudia Boldt, who I met v briefly at LBF last year,

Chris Haughton, who does great stuff, lovely colours.

Viviane Schwartz, whose cat books are fab.

And Sara Ogilvie, and Kevin Waldron and Levi Pinfold.

But I must say I do think they are very well chosen cos I do rate all of them very highly, there's some really inspiring, marvellous work there.

Well done all :)

Red House Children's Book Award

Here we are, quick post, the shortlist for the Red House Children's Book Award has come out.

There's some good stuff in the picture book section, including a couple of illustrators who I really like, Alison Edgson, and Charles Fuge.

Good luck chaps :)

http://www.redhousechildrensbookaward.co.uk/award-shortlist.asp

Award

I have received an award! Huzzah!

The very kind Justin Segal bestowed the Zombie Chicken award upon me.

(See Justin's great blog here)

Thanks very much Justin :)

In honour of it, here is a sketch of a chicken I did a while back.

He's not a zombie, but is supposed to be snooty, self-important, and a bit hubristic.