It’s all gone very high tech in Didsworth as Dixie finally has a mobile phone.
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on Saturday February 28th

I’ll be starting my busy World Book Week in style.
It’s a great honour to be the guest at the annual Children’s Book Fair at The Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution next Saturday.
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 from the illustrator’s point of view…

This week I’ll be be posting about the creative chemistry of this most special relationship in children’s books, and what it means to me.
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now out in paperback!

Dixie, Percy, Peaches Miaow;
diamonds, cat burglars, getaway cars, caves at midnight, afternoon teas;
games, maps, quizzes.
Dixie O’Day and the Great Diamond Robbery
£5.99 – amazing!

How I love drawing the maps in the Dixie O’Day books. I imagine the reader following the drama as it unfolds, tracing the routes with a small finger – the reckless shortcuts in The Fast Lane, the cliff path down to choppy seas from the Hotel Splendide in The Great Diamond Robbery…
a map gives a story another layer of verisimilitude – it really happened, it happened here!
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