A good way to start the year!
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| Storytime at Tate Britain! |
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| In the TOP TEN! |
#storytime
#LondonCalls
#apossumstail
#TateBritain
#UrbanExplorer
#thingstodointheholidays
Monday, 19 December 2016
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
ECO KIDS NEW ISSUE 25: The Persian Gulf: BAHRAIN
As usual, lots to read, make and do - all about our beautiful planet and its myriad of animals.
READ Eco Kids, WATCH Planet Earth II & forget about the seismic turn of world events...
Planet Earth II
#ecokidsplanet
#planetearth2
#BBC
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
STICKERS STICKERS STICKERS as LONDON CALLS ONCE MORE!
HOT-OFF-THE-PRESS, FRESH-FROM-THE-BOOK-MAKING-FACTORY...it's the:
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| 'Oh you'd better listen when next London Calls!' |
#londoncallsstickerbook
#Londonkids
#stickers
#activities
#fun
#Tatepublishinglondon
BUS KING THEATRE NEWS!
How cool is this?! Watch the new film from Amazing London about the wonderful Bus King Theatre creators, Athena and Cesare...
Athena & Cesare of BUS KING THEATRE
And you can hear the soundtrack written specially for the London Calls show by Bobby Paul of cult band The Severed Limb if you click on the bus below!
#buskingtheatre
#theseveredlimb
#londoncalls
STORYSTOCK at the Lyric Hammersmith, Autumn Half Term 2016
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| LONDON CALLS! at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith as part of STORYSTOCK |
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| Fantastical magic bus no. 1 |
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| Fantastical magic bus no. 2 |
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| Beautiful Tales on Moon Lane books were there! |
Thank you for inviting us STORYSTOCK!
#storystockfestival
#lyrictheatrehammersmith
#talesonmoonlane
#londoncalls
Sunday, 2 October 2016
L O O K....2 NEW ISSUES: SPOOKY SCIENCE & EMOTIONS!
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| The latest Okido magazine is all about EMOTIONS |
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| The latest Eco Kids Planet is all about SPOOKY SCIENCE! #Okidomagazine #EcoKidsPlanet #kidsmagazine #illustration #nature #emotions #bats #spiders #slime |
Thursday, 15 September 2016
LATEST COMMISSION...fruity menu and name place designs....
Interesting how much sharper the first scan was.
#clementines
Monday, 22 August 2016
AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE...
Amazon page done.
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| Out 9th February 2017 (Franklin Watts/Hachette) |
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| Out 9th February 2017 (Thames & Hudson) |
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| Out November 2016 (Tate Publishing) |
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| Okido magazine SPACE issue |
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| Messy Goes to Okido DVD (with my Balloons episode) |
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| ECOK KIDS planet magazine |
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| ECO KIDS planet magazine AMAZING OCEANS issue |
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| ECO KIDS planet magazine SPOOKY SCIENCE issue |
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| Published September 2014 (Tate) |
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| Messy Goes to Okido (CBeebies) |
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| Published February 2014 (Tate) |
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| London Calls/Possum merchandise at Tate shop #Tate #Thames&Hudson #FranklinWatts #Okido #MessygoestoOkido #CBeebies #EcoKidsPlanetmagazine #Londonisopen #London #Londoncalls #possumstail #ifihadadinosaur #rollercoasterridearoundthebody #kidspoetry #kidstv #scriptwriting #kitsonpress |
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
And came across: Radical Storytime
Radical Storytime is a great little Tumblr site by an...
"aspiring youth services librarian with a heart for revolution"
Her featured letter last week was 'Z' and the kids read books about zoos. Zoos, the author says, are not places that make her feel very happy - but nevertheless, they provide an excellent way for young children to learn about animals. And A Possum's Tail was one of the books she read.
The zoo in A Possum's Tail is not a sad place - Alex's illustrations are too joyful, inclusive and lively. And the story is too 'wild' and silly and fantastical (although I still feel that the possums and Samuel Drew should have flown to the moon...ahh, but that's another 'tail'...)
But this is what we like to see: books being read, discussed and USED.
Thank you Stephanie!
x
#RadicalStorytime
Child and Cat drawings
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| Child and cat 1 |
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| Child and cat 2 |
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| Child and cat 3 |
All are an 'homage' to the wonderful, inspirational teaching of the very beautiful and extraordinarily talented Emily Haworth-Booth. I attended Emily's amazing course on graphic novel drawing last week, in the heat and dust of the hottest week of the year/decade/millennium (?!) in an attempt to clarify and develop both my drawing and writing. We learnt so much in five days - and so much more to learn. It did confirm the Herculean task that lies ahead if I am ever, ever going to turn 'Pictures & Leaves' into a graphic novel.
What I do need to do is draw draw draw much more in the meantime...
#EmilyHaworthBooth
#RoyalDrawingSchool
ps oh the excitement of working with dip pens on the smooooothest Bristol paper. So exciting in fact, that I was afraid to do it. But I did.
FISH and ME illustrated by Rachel Ortas
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| Water issue of OKIDO |
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| Thanks for the re-gram buttercupwhitstable |
So beautiful, Rachel - thank you for bringing my words to life!
#RachelOrtas
#Okidomagazine
#poems
#illustration
Friday, 22 July 2016
Plus ECO KIDS PLANET free educational resources & activities...
Visit ECO KIDS now to download.
Summer Holidays Activities - sorted!
#EcoKidsPlanet
#greatwhiteshark
#oceans
Thursday, 14 July 2016
MORE MESSY MERCH...
Oh hey, you can now buy my Messy Goes to Okido Lost Balloon episode on DVD!
And these little beauties: "Made in soft furry fabrics and includes embroidered facial features"
as well as Adam Buxton's brilliant voice!
The good news is that BOTH plush Messy toys TALK and come with 'batteries included'!
#MessyGoestoOkido
#Okidomagazine
#Okido
#Doodleproductions
#CBeebies
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| Click HERE! |
And these little beauties: "Made in soft furry fabrics and includes embroidered facial features"
as well as Adam Buxton's brilliant voice!
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| SMALL Messy... |
Available to pre-order HERE!
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| ...and LARGE Messy! |
#MessyGoestoOkido
#Okidomagazine
#Okido
#Doodleproductions
#CBeebies
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Happy Birthday OKIDO!
Okido was 5 years old this issue...the wonderful art and science magazine for kids I've been lucky enough to have worked on for the past - 8 - years now