What a Christmas Cracker!

BREAKING NEWS...

It is with barely-contained excitement that I announce this piece of news:

Eddie Redmayne will read If I had a dinosaur on CBeebies Bedtime Stories, Christmas Day!

TUNE IN TO CBEEBIES on 25th December 2017, because...

  If I had a dinosaur  is the CBeebies 'Bedtime Stories' book at 6.50pm on CHRISTMAS DAY! 

As if this weren't thrilling enough, it's being read by none other than Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne (AKA 'Newt Scammander' from the film adaptation of JK Rowling's Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them)

#ifihadadinosaur

#eddieredmayne

#bedtimestories

#cbeebies

#thamesandhudson

#alexbarrow

#childrensbooks

#rhymingbooks

#literacymatters

#childrensillustrations

#dinosaurs

Click here for a bit of Eddie anticipation: TWITTER

A POSSUM'S TAIL NEWS...

This has made my day/week/year! This little guy chose to go to Book Day as Samuel Drew - possible the coolest costume EVER?! That cheeky grin is just the BEST. Thank you for posting #dulwichdad

Samuel Drew - the real thing!

#Instagram

#samueldrew

#apossumstail

#worldbookday2017

#worldbookday

#worldbookdaycostume

#literacymatters

POLAR BEAR ENDANGERED CREATURE FEATURE in the new-look Eco Kids Planet magazine...

Endangered Creature Feature 1 - POLAR BEAR

The new Eco Kids Planet issue is here and it's rather appropriately - given the season - all about Greenland...

Here's one of my features as a little taster. Click on the link above to find out more.

 

'Walking on thin ice...' poem from issue 38 EKP

#ecokidsplanetmagazine

#polarbears

#endangeredanimals

#endangeredcreaturefeature

#nonfictionforkids

#Greenland

#poetryforkids

#literacymatters

#ecomatters

A ROLLER-COASTER RIDE AROUND THE BODY IS SHORTLISTED!

#picturebookblogger

A Roller-coaster Ride Around the Body has been shortlisted for the ASE (Association for Science in Education) BOOK Award 2017!

#mybearsbooks

#bookbairn

ASE Book Award 2017 shortlist announced!


#ASE
#asebookaward2017
#scienceineducation
#childrensnonfiction
#scienceandart
#childrensbooks
#childrenseducation

AMY'S DIARY (and new artwork) for ECO KIDS PLANET magazine issue 37

I'm so proud to work for two fantastic children's magazines/fanzines; ECO KIDS PLANET & OKIDO. Both of these publications are committed to engaging kids to interact more with their surroundings, learn, discover and question - through reading, making, cooking and playing.

#EcoKidsplanetmagazine highlights - at this crucial moment in history - the responsibility we all share to care for this beautiful and amazing planet, and through #Okidomagazine, kids can explore the science of how things work in an imaginative and creative way.

AMY'S DIARY - ECO KIDS MAGAZINE #37 INCAS - with some of my bird drawings!

AMY'S DIARY - ECO KIDS MAGAZINE #37 INCAS - with my 'cock of the rock' bird drawing!

And playing catch-up, here are my poems from Okido 52 (TIME) and Okido 54 (ARCHITECTURE) illustrated by the brilliant Alex Barrow.

Architect Me! © Gabby Dawnay

#ecokidsplanetmagazine
#okidomagazine
#childrensmagazines
#childrensillustration
#pencilandink
#ecologymatters
#sciencematters
#artmatters
#literacymatters

#time

#architecture

#animals

#endageredanimals

#timeflies

Time Flies! © Gabby Dawnay

In dreams (you are loved) by Jai-Jagdeesh

Heard this song in my inspirational Monday yoga class. And then found this adorable little bit of simple animation to go with it on YouTube...

If I had a dinosaur in Dutch ad

'Als ik een dinosaurus had'

From the marvellous... 

Kinder boeken nieuws

A burst of BIRD ARTWORK

I haven't done any artwork for ages, had been writing the latest piece for #Ecokidsplanetmagazine  (which happened to be a diary) and suddenly felt inspired by these beautiful/bizarre/extraordinary birds...

The Common Potoo

Marvellous Spatuletail

Hoatzin, aka 'stink bird'

Cock-of-the-rock, Brazil's national bird

#ecokidsplanet

#bids

#birdsofPeru

#dinosaurs

#Amazon

#drawing

COMPETITION TIME...AND MORE EVENTS!

Alex and I will be at the London Transport Museum Saturday July 2nd and Sunday July 3rd to read London Calls and run some London-themed workshops at 2.30pm each day.



Tate Publishing has got together with Storytime magazine to run this fab competition:

Storytime magazine competition

#Londontransportmuseum

#londoncalls

#Tatepublishing

#rhymingbooks

#literacymatters

#childrensillustration

#Ilovelondon

#stroytimemagazine

ECO KIDS MAGAZINE - THE AFRICAN GIANTS ISSUE!

Nice to have writing AND illustrations in this issue of ECO KIDS PLANET MAGAZINE

 

 

Here's more elephant artwork...

©gabbydawnay

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©gabbydawnay

©gabbydawnay

©gabbydawnay

#ecokidsplanetmagazine
#elephants
#Africanelephants
#childrensmagazines
#childrensillustration
#pencilandink
#ecologymatters
#literacymatters

One more today... LONDON CALLS features in the stylish, "SMALLISH" magazine!

#smallishmagazine
#tatepublishing
#childrensbooks
#childrensillustration
#rhymingbooks
#litseracymatters
#london
#londoncalls

KIDS LIT REVIEWS: If I had a dinosaur..

Read the whole review here: KIDS LIT REVIEWS

Interview on Thames & Hudson website

In Conversation with the Creators of a Loveable Domestic Dinosaur

Posted on 26 Apr 2017

Gabby Dawnay & Alex Barrow discuss the joy and knowledge in children's picture books and striking the right balance between image and text. 

By Matthew Wright

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Read the full interview here: THAMES&HUDSON

#thamesandhudson

#ifihadadinosaur

#childrensillustration

#literacymatters

#rhymingbooks

#alexbarrowillustration

#matthewwrightjournalist

LONDON CALLS - 'STORYTIME' with Messy Goes to Okido and Becky!

Brilliant Becky does it again! (She's fabulous)

#tatepublishing
#doodleproductions
#squintopera
#messygoestookido
#okidomagazine
#Londoncalls
#literacymatters
#storytime
#childrensillustration
#rhymingbooks
#childrenspicturebooks

San Francisco Book Review (no less)

Very nice...

San Francisco Book Review

#sanfranciscobookreview

#thamesandhudson

#literacymatters

#ifihadadinosaur

#childrensillustration

#rhymingbooks

#childrenspicturebooks

Messy Goes to Okido Storytime

So beautifully read by Becky, gorgeously illustrated by Rachel Ortas and animated and put to music by the talented Messy Goes to Okido team!

#okidomagazine

#messygoestookido

#messygoestookidostorytime

#childrenspoems

#literacymatters

#theboyandhisteddybear

#edwardlearinspired

#childrensillustration

#animation

#rachelortasillustrator

If I had a dinosaur...is a finalist in the Teach Early Years Magazine Excellence Awards

Well this is rather nice - thank you TeachEarlyYears 

Some really excellent resources in the line-up - good luck to us all - but just great to be in the final group of five!

#TeachEarlyYears
#award
#literacymatters
#picturebooks
#earlyyearslearning
#rhyme
#illustration
#thamesandhudson
#alexbarrow

Here's another poem from read by Becky for Messy goes to Okido Storytime!

Brilliant Becky reads another of my poems called, Noisy Machines from Okido magazine issue 29 illustrated by talented Maggie Li and charmingly animated by the team!

This new series is great - check out the Messy goes to Okido YouTube channel for more, including clips, episodes, songs and activities from the hit CBeebies show! 

(MGTO series two on its way...)

#messygoestookido

#okidomagazine

#artsandscience

#learningmatters

#poemsforkids

#kidsmagazines

#animation

#childrensillustration

#doodleproductions

#squintopera

Maggie Li illustration

BRILLIANT BECKY READS 'FOUR LITTLE SEEDS'...

This is SO cool! I'm really excited to have one of my Okido magazine poems feature on this new Messy Goes to Okido YouTube Storytime slot. Four Little Seeds, from issue 35 (Seasons), is read by the gorgeous Becky, who is not only a brilliant animator/illustrator, but should also seriosuly be considering a second job as a children's television presenter...

And I love the way Alex Barrow's lively illustrations have been slightly animated!

#okidomagazine

#messygoestookido

#literacymatters

#poemsforkids

#okidostorytime

#springpoetry

POO! (& wee)...

...it's the NEW issue of OKIDO magazine!

#okidomagazine

#childrensmagazines

#artsandscience

Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!

Click on the image for pure joy...