International Sloth Day 2019
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
Baby Tempi - now available to pre-order!
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
Introducing ... Baby Tempi
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
Those very buckets turned upside down …
I’m back! It’s been a long hiatus since my last blog post, but I’ve now returned to working on my children’s book project. I’ve only just begun working on the final drawings, but if I’m able to keep to schedule, I should have the book finished by early next year. As I mentioned in my previous post about the project, it brings together a random assortment of influences, from Alexis Deacon to the Slow Movement. Oddly, it seems that more and more of the music I’ve been introduce
Slowths
One of the things that I want to do before I turn 30 is publish a children's book. I've had an idea in the works for a few years now to create a book about a sloth. The animals have been enjoying a relative amount of popularity after the Animal Planet documentary series 'Meet the Sloths' about a sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica. One of the two-toed sloths at London Zoo For those who like sloths, it is much more polite to call them 'slowths', rather than compare them to the deadl
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