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CHRISTMAS SEASON TO BE JOLLY
You can see more of my Christmas cartoons here And here is DORIS, the cleaner, celebrating on a similar theme: Meanwhile, Flowkwee, my ALIEN SCHOOLBOY, is having trouble with his winter clothes: He think Father Christmas is a god -and doesn’t even seem to know what a jumper is: You can read The…
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ROALD DAHL, TOWER HAMLETS, PRIZES, LITERACY GALORE.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member– No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds– November! — Thomas Hood My November was quite cheery, though. Nov 4th saw the launch of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Literacy at House of Commons with MPs…
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THE BIG DRAW
Busy week for me, because I really like just sitting around dreaming. Or quietly drawing. But I wish everybody would draw more, so that’s why I mosied along to The Guardian newspaper’s BIG DRAW last Saturday. Here is just one of the many many wonderful ALIENS YOU CREATED. (Hope to add more later) Joshua…
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ROALD DAHL FUNNY PRIZE SHOCK
Earthlings, listen here. Perhaps you are not such lousy no-good hopeless duffers as I thought. You seem to have chosen ‘LETTERS FROM AN ALIEN SCHOOLBOY’ to be shortlisted for your so called Roald Dahl ‘Funny’ prize. I don’t really get this Earthling thing about ‘jokes’, especially as you always seem to be laughing at me, but I…
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Book Award and phonics
I’m thrilled to hear that Letters from an Alien Schoolboy: Has been shortlisted for the Tower Hamlets Book Award – Fronter It was chosen with five other books from 30 titles and the vote is on Nov 25th.Here’s my original drawing for the cover. You can see the final…