Paula Brightens Up Bookshop with Prints and Bunting!

Brillustration's Paula Bowles can currently be found brightening up a corner of Blackwell's Bookshop, Park Street, Bristol.
Her series of three 'Tea Cup Mice' prints are on sale NOW and will be there for all to admire for the next couple of months.

More Brillustrator's prints coming SOON-ish.
Watch this space!

www.paulabowles.co.uk

Sheffield children's book awards!

Majorly chuffed that

  Anna Hibiscus song.

written by Atinuke.

Illustrations by Lauren Tobia

(woop thats me!)

and published by the lovely folks at Walker Books.

Has been shortlisted for the Sheffield children's book award!

http://sheffieldchildrensbookaward.blogspot.co.uk/p/picture-books.html

that is all :-)

Brillustration monthly meetup.

Yes its that time again 

tuesday 24th April.

At the tobacco factory .

Trip to the London Book Fair

I was at the Harbourside Market in Bristol at the weekend with my stall - selling my illustrations and other hand made delights and I was visited by a very lovely Chinese lady.  She invited me to the Chinese Forum at the London book fair as she said they are looking for people just like me!  So some of us from Brillustration are going on a school trip to the London Book Fair - I've never been before and I'm really excited. 

Here is one of the new prints I had on sale at the weekend. 

Brillustration beers at Renatos

Well if your teetering on the brink of joining Brillustration. or your a regular...
its at Renato's on kings street TOMORROW.
7.45 until they stop serving us.

Dancing Dos and Don'ts on Driver Dan's Story Train

Finally, after almost a year the story I wrote and illustrated for the Drive aired this evening.  You can have a look on the Iplayer for I think the next fortnight (they're reshowing it on BBC Two on the 29th if I read the doohickey correctly..). 

There'll be drama....laughter....and of course a party... Hope you like it!

White Ravens Bologna Exhibition

Hi everyone, have just had some great news that my last picture book has been selected by the International Youth Library in Munich for their Bologna exhibition.

An Coileach Codlatach (The Sleepy Rooster) by Nuala Nic Con Iomaire and my good self was chosen as one of the titles for The White Ravens 2012, an annual selection of outstanding international books for children and young adults, which will be presented at the International Youth Library's stand at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. The books for this year's exhibition, 250 titles from more than 40 countries, have been selected from the thousands of books that the library received as review copies from publishers, authors, illustrators, and organisations from all over the world within the last year.

Very happy with the outcome as are the publishers Futa Fata, and to top it off I also found out this week that there is going to be a Chinese edition out this year too. Hurrah!