CAIT PETERSON

Today is International Sloth Day and I'll be celebrating by sharing lots of fun information about these amazing animals. For instance, did you know that sloths can live to be 50-years-old? That's around 90 in human years! The world's oldest sloth, Paula, lives in Halle Zoo in Germany. You can read more about her here. To celebrate, I'm also giving away a copy of my new early-years children's book about a sloth, Baby Tempi! Details about how to enter are on my Instagram. Last

Back in July, I wrote about my newest children's book project, Baby Tempi. I'm happy to say that Baby Tempi will be published on Saturday 28 September! You can pre-order it from my Etsy shop, Owl & Penguin Prints, and have the option to receive a signed copy! You can also pre-order from Amazon UK, other Amazon sites, or ask your local bookshop to order it for you. All orders will be shipped on September 28th. If you're in London and would like to buy the book in person, I'll

Hello again! I’ve been busy over the past couple of months with my newest children’s book project. As some of you may know, I have been working on a children’s book called Tempi for the past few years. I’ve gradually come to the realisation that a full 32-page children’s book is quite a big undertaking for someone who only gets to do illustration work in my spare time (usually between 5 and 7am during the summer months!), outside of my full-time librarian job. Me being me, I

Working in a university library, the first few weeks of October are always the busiest of the year. We’re meeting all the new students and showing them around the library, as well as running sessions for returning students. For students as well as staff, there are lots of highs and lows packed into the first few weeks of term. I remember being a first year illustration student at the same university 11 years ago. I was intensely homesick, but I was meeting new people and expl

Despite being very busy throughout June and into July, I've still managed to make time to work on my children's book, Tempi. I'm so happy to have finished the back cover of the book, which shows Tempi's friends coming together to make music. Although these other characters may only show up on a few pages of the book, I've spent a lot of time thinking about who they are and what real-world person they may be inspired by. I've written before about how the badger is inspired by

My big news this month is that my friend and fellow illustrator Wiggy Cheung and I will be at the House of Illustration in King's Cross, London, at the Illustrators' Christmas Fair this Saturday, 9th of December 2017. Stop by and say 'hello'! I've been busy drawing, folding and printing over the past weeks. I created a set of three Christmas card designs - penguins playing in the snow, hedgehogs and field mice in their burrows, and a woodland snowflake with robins, squirrels,