Bear with me Book at Colin West's!

Had a lovely Saturday with Colin West and other amazing illustrators looking through the beautiful piece of art that is the Bear with me Book! I'm so pleased Colin in the current custodian of this, couldn't think of anyone better to look after this amazing artwork.

Thanks to Jo Byatt for this pic!

This was my favourite spread from the book by Holly Surplice :)

Birthday mouse

A little doodle for dear Colin West whose birthday it is today!

The most talented James Davies :) and a MOST EXCELLENT day trip to Colin West's house!

James Davies is quite ludicrously talented. No sketching out shapes and drawing over it, he just draws it as is, no mistakes. Sickening really! Anyways you can see his request drawings here and he's kindly done one for me and one of me and my lovliest chum Amberin Huq too!

*this is an actual representation of how excited I get by car journeys

So on Saturday myself, James and Amberin drove us down to Colin West's soirée in Battle Sussex, as he'd invited us and a number of incredibly successful illustrators too, so I felt very much in awe of the talent around me! 

Here we are in Colin's library which was very impressive.

I was lucky enough to see roughs of new books and get my copy of Storm Whale by Benji Davies signed too as well as Mouse and Mouse by Colin also :) 

Just so wonderful meeting the people behind twitter pictures!

Thanks Colin :)