It’s so amazing how Christmas is different and yet the same every year, that intertwining of what’s happening now in this very year and all the familiar rituals, beautiful music, same decorations from years and years before.
If you happen to pop in to visit this page today, best wishes for a lovely, loving season, with [...]

I just found a long list of title ideas I’d put together when doing the book which ended up as Ogre Fun.
The story is about ogres who catch yawning from some children—you know how contagious yawning is: when you see someone do it, it’s almost impossible to stop yourself from yawning right back. Even thinking [...]

How big is the “original artwork” for a picturebook illustration?
Some of the illustrations in picture books are done on huge canvases, and then made much smaller to go onto the page. Some of the pictures are drawn and painted at exactly the same size they’ll end up in the final book.
I found this illustration I’d [...]

Do space aliens have their own form of pizza? Obviously this was a question I asked myself when illustrating Nothing Beats A Pizza. (I found this picture this morning.) The ingredients for Martian Pizza would be weirdly interesting. And how would you deliver them in outer space?
Hey, maybe there’s even a PLANET Pizza out [...]