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Winter is Coming... Knitting!Painting!Drawing!Writing stories!Winter is my favourite time of the year to snuggle in and get creative.This Creative Winter (It's coming. Nearly there! Brrr!)Better to show you pictures, right?I know you love pictures because, hello, you LOVE children's literature and that's why you're here.With me.Readin' this... Not only Writing Books for Children HERE'S WHAT I'M …
1 They write as if their work is being marked. It's hard to lose that inner student, the kid who's shit scared of getting it wrong. But you're not that kid anymore. You can write whatever the hell you want. In any shape or form. People don't know what to do with this freedom. It …
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I wrote my first picture book in the 1980s. It was about a teddy bear. Mr Bear spent several hours dangling from a clothesline. Gripping stuff. I popped my story in an envelope and sent it to a publisher. Six months later when the rejection slip arrived, I stuck it to the wall above my typewriter. …
