 I'm very excited about this one! 1,2,3 Do the Dinosaur is illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw. I've long been an admirer of Ros's work. Her characters are truly adorable and she's made this a book to love and treasure. I'm very pleased with the text too - I was lucky enough to work with editor Alison Green who taught me so much during the process.
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 Big, windy tent, 200 people and swinging chandeliers. Plus I spy friends!  Huge thanks to Bournville Book Fest and all the families who came along to meet the Ten Fat Sausages and the Odd Socks!  What a busy couple of weeks! I've had a wonderful time visiting schools as part of their World Book Day celebrations. My week started with in Andover and Basingstoke with the Hants School Library Service. What lucky schools to have such brilliant librarians! They help pick out the best new titles and make sure the schools have plenty of variety on their bookshelves. The kids were brilliant, too! I visited St Bede's and St John the Baptist's primary schools, who played host to other schools joining us on coach trips. It was bookish, busy, bonkers and lots of fun.  Me and my friend, author Fleur Hitchcock On World Book Day itself I was invited to Milldown Academy, Blandford Forum for a whole day of sessions with everyone from reception to year 6. No rest for wicked sausages - I was at Christchurch Primary in Bradford-on-Avon on Friday morning along with Fleur Hitchcock!
The children at Christchurch had all been challenged to make a 'book hat' from a piece of card. The hats were based on their favourite books.Assembly was BRILLIANT! I've never seen so many wonderful, creative, inventive and varied hats. What a great idea - much cheaper and simpler than costumes, and they got everyone talking about favourite stories. I think my favourite was a traditional caravan hat from Danny the Champion of the World. The hats meant I found out about some books I'd not heard of before - and I've now borrowed them from the library for my kids to read! I'm still not done! I'm visiting Old Sarum Primary with Waterstone's Salisbury tomorrow, then I'll be at the Bournville Lit Fest for a sold out Ten Fat Sausages event on Saturday. Phew! Thanks to my publishers and Authors Aloud for keeping me organised, and to all the bookshops who've helped with book sales. Hooray for books, every single day!
Well, these took a while, but they're finally here: Happy Birthday to you, Princess and Happy Birthday to You, Pirate are now in book stores. In 2016 my editor at HarperCollins spotted that the rights to the song, Happy Birthday had finally come into the public domain. She asked me to write some books, essentially as 'party bag' items for very young children who love those traditional party themes: princesses, pirates, superheroes . . . you know the kind of thing.  'There's a troll in your sled! There's a pea in your bed!' - Vicki Gausden's lovely art.  They lined up Vicki Gausden to illustrate them - and I'm very glad they did. Vicki's style is super cute and very appealing. We worked on these a long time ago, so they feel a long way away from the sort of books Vicki and I are working on now - but they're very sweet, nonetheless! I wanted the books to be fun and silly - the squashed tomatoes and stew kind of birthday song rather than anything too sickly sweet.
 My kids were so small back then! I miss the dressing up days. |
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