Glasgow Festival and Jelly.

 My first time in Glasgow last week for the excellent

Glasgow WEST END FESTIVAL.

I Loved doing the two events with the schools.

The kids got me to draw some revolting monsters with:

tattoos

spots

snakes

scissor hands

six packs

high heeled shoes

and lot's of other freaky things. All in a days work.

Here's a few pics. 

(Pics of the kids and their drawings to follow.)

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Kilts everywhere..

Libary copies of Tom Gates

The very fancy Raddison Blu hotel I can recommend!

Artwork in the hotel

More great drawings done by the children.

With the children who came to the
Glasgow West End Festival

Peacock on top of the shops

Happy Readers!

Ok..let me explain. 

It's a jelly mould of Brighton Pavilion bought as a present for us from this

company Bompas and Parr.

The mould broke after one jelly

so I sent this photo to the company and told them what happened. 

They sent TWO more moulds in the post to us, so now we have a pair..(insert joke here.)

Red House Book Awards

Congratulations to Michael Morpurgo who won this years Red House Book Award.

I was lucky enough to be invited (never miss a nice lunch) to  enjoy the whole ceremony (which I did a lot.)

It's the only award voted for by children and is run by the Federation Of Children's books who do a fantastic job every year.

Here's a few pics from a fabulous day. Off to Glasgow book festival  tomorrow. 

Me and Strawberrie (from Little Tiger press.)

Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Chris (Young Samurai) Bradford. 

The venue

Fellow author Adam Stower

First course

Cacti

David from Federation of Children's books

 

Lily and Joe who were on my table

Fabulous hat from Tom Gates
colouring sheets.

A lot of salad left over!

Winners of the Picture book category Alison and Angela with "YUCK that's not a monster!"

Michael and his award with Adam

The BOSCAR AWARDS- and Eastbourne

I've been busy finishing off Tom Gates Book two-
Excellent Excuses (and other good stuff.) 

Pen ready..

So this happened last Friday, but myself and Lily had fabulous fun and games at the BOSCARS. 

Where the children opened gold envelopes that contained the many book honors.I also did a Tom Gates drawing session with them, where we drew more ridiculous monsters.

The library was also host to a fantastic exhibition of knitting

Everything from creatures- flowers - even pants on a washing line.

Thanks to everyone for a fab afternoon.

Knitted Flowers

Knitted Pants

Lily on Bournemouth Beach

Drawing on the train

Knitted Lemons

Knitted Ponds

Saturday 4th June went to the CHATTERBOOKS group in Eastbourne where they did some BRILLIANT Tom Gates style drawings. Thanks for the lovely bunch of flowers I was given too. Lily and I managed a quick rest on the beach afterwards.