Quick-and-snappy advice, in case you’re in a hurry…
Okay: so you’ve already written a picture book without reading the pages and pages of advice on my website. Tut, tut! May I kindly and warmly suggest that you do read the hints I’ve posted below, after this ‘quick-and-snappy’ section. I made many bungles in my attempts to […]

Here are twenty DOs and twenty DON’Ts for writers of picture books, to make sure nothing vitally important has been left out from the previous information!:

DO read recent picture books over and over again.
DO make friends with a bookseller or librarian or stoyteller: their advice and guidance can be enormously helpful.
DO be original: try not […]

Hello everyone!
It’s a freezing winter’s night in Adelaide, June 22nd 2005, and it’s rather late at night and I’m going to America again in the morning, early, but I didn’t want to leave before I said goodbye, as it were.
It’s been a frenetic month since I came back from my last trip to […]