STORYTELLING AT TATE BRITAIN - January 2nd 2017!

A good way to start the year!

Storytime at Tate Britain!

In the TOP TEN!

#storytime

#LondonCalls

#apossumstail

#TateBritain

#UrbanExplorer

#thingstodointheholidays

Sneaky peak...

What's Alex been working on..?

Mouse on the move...

#illustration

#AlexBarrow

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...

ECO KIDS PLANET

Planet Earth II

#ecokidsplanet

#planetearth2

#BBC

STICKERS STICKERS STICKERS as LONDON CALLS ONCE MORE!

HOT-OFF-THE-PRESS, FRESH-FROM-THE-BOOK-MAKING-FACTORY...it's the:

'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

LONDON CALLS! at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith as part of STORYSTOCK

We ran a couple of London Calls workshops as part of this wonderful event! As usual, the kids were the stars, with an amazing knowledge of all things London, super-active imaginations and superb drawing skills...

Fantastical magic bus no. 1

Fantastical magic bus no. 2

Beautiful Tales on Moon Lane books were there!

Thank you for inviting us STORYSTOCK!

#storystockfestival

#lyrictheatrehammersmith

#talesonmoonlane

#londoncalls

L O O K....2 NEW ISSUES: SPOOKY SCIENCE & EMOTIONS!

The latest Okido magazine is all about EMOTIONS

The latest Eco Kids Planet is all about SPOOKY SCIENCE!

#Okidomagazine
#EcoKidsPlanet
#kidsmagazine
#illustration
#nature
#emotions
#bats
#spiders
#slime

LATEST COMMISSION...fruity menu and name place designs....

Interesting how much sharper the first scan was.

 #blackberries
#clementines

AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE...

Amazon page done.

Check it out here... AUTHOR

Out 9th February 2017 (Franklin Watts/Hachette)

Out 9th February 2017 (Thames & Hudson)

Out November 2016 (Tate Publishing)

Okido magazine SPACE issue 

Messy Goes to Okido DVD (with my Balloons episode)

ECOK KIDS planet magazine

ECO KIDS planet magazine AMAZING OCEANS issue

ECO KIDS planet magazine SPOOKY SCIENCE issue

Published September 2014 (Tate) 

Messy Goes to Okido (CBeebies)

Published February 2014 (Tate) 

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

"CHANGES"

The beginning of an idea...

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

@stefmolinaro

#RadicalStorytime

Child and Cat drawings

Child and cat 1

Child and cat 2

Child and cat 3

Trying to decide which works best; I like the face in left version, but I like the wash in the second. The third is possibly the most solid landscape. 

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

Water issue of OKIDO

Thanks for the re-gram buttercupwhitstable

So beautiful, Rachel - thank you for bringing my words to life!

#RachelOrtas

#Okidomagazine

#poems

#illustration

Plus ECO KIDS PLANET free educational resources & activities...

Visit ECO KIDS now to download.

Summer Holidays Activities - sorted!

#EcoKidsPlanet

#greatwhiteshark

#oceans

OKIDO 42 THE WATER ISSUE...

Just in time for the summer!

Okido issue 42

#okido

#okidomagazine

MORE MESSY MERCH...

Oh hey, you can now buy my Messy Goes to Okido Lost Balloon episode on DVD!

Click HERE!

And these little beauties: "Made in soft furry fabrics and includes embroidered facial features"
as well as Adam Buxton's brilliant voice!

SMALL Messy...

 Available to pre-order HERE!

...and LARGE Messy!

The good news is that BOTH plush Messy toys TALK and come with 'batteries included'!

#MessyGoestoOkido
#Okidomagazine
#Okido
#Doodleproductions
#CBeebies