We’ll be at the fantastic Tales on Moon Lane Bookshop in Herne Hill, London on Friday 3rd June, so come along for a super stripy storytime, and see Karen drawing some of her pictures!
The fun starts at 10.30am – hope to see you there…
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Stripy Springtime in York!
A big HELLO to everyone at Grove Park School in York! We had a fantastic time when we visited a few weeks ago. Take a look at some of the children’s handiwork below – so many beautiful Stripy Horses!…
Thanks to Mike Tipping at York Press for this picture of us all too…
And we mustn’t forget to mention Tim, Philippa and Sam of the Little Apple Bookshop (just by the Minster – pop in pay them a visit!). They organised our visit to Grove Park and treated us to a very tasty Turlu Turlu – YUM!
Spring was just beginning then, but now its in full swing so next time we’ll have some news on a special new Stripy baby book due to be published in May…
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Spot The Real Stripy Horse…
We visited St Monica Infant school in Southampton a few weeks ago and were amazed to see so many superbly stripy flower pot horses lined up to greet us!
The children had all been making their own versions of Hermann, Muriel and Roly and Pitch too. Many thanks to Louise Ripley and all at St Monica’s for a wonderful day and for showing us all their fantastic creations.
We’ll be adding some more Stripy craft idea and projects to the fun stuff section of our website very soon, so keep checking here if you’re feeling creative…
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World Book Day – Waterstone’s Bromley
It’s world book day on March 3rd and there are events in bookshops and schools across the country to read and talk about much loved books.
As part of the celebrations, we’ll be reading some of our Stripy Horse stories at Waterstone’s in the Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley at 10.30am on Saturday 5th March.
We’re then off to visit some schools in York in partnership with The Little Apple Book Shop.
Do come along if you are in the area – we’d love to see you!
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Save Sydenham Library
Yesterday we took part in a special event at our local library, which is under the threat of closure. The place was packed with people, all there to lend their support and listen to the various author readings and speeches. Thanks to Louise Brooks for doing such a great job of organising things and to everyone who helped us sing our Monster Tomato song.
Let’s hope this nationwide day of action, to save libraries all over the country, can make a difference. Libraries were really important to Karen and I when we were growing up. They played a vital role in inspiring us to write and illustrate books of our own. Without them, Stripy Horse might not have seen the light of day.
Here we are before they released lots of balloons to mark the end of the event…
Like this:
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Put on Your Imagining Hats!
It’s cold outside so Karen’s been wrapped up indoors creating some artwork for the new Write Away ‘Just Imagine’ story centre.
The centre is based in the old Anglia Television building in Chelmsford, Essex and will house a specialist children’s bookshop, an event space and a storytelling theatre – the perfect place for anyone passionate about children’s books!
The illustration is part of an imaginative alphabet letter wall that’s on permanent display. Visitors can guess who illustrated each letter when the centre opens in the new year (contributers include Tony Ross and David Melling among others), but you can get a sneak preview as some of the letters are revealed in an alphabet advent on the ‘Just Imagine’ facebook page here.
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Thank You Godstowe School!
A big hello to everyone at Godstowe School in High Wycombe – thanks so much for making us so welcome the other week (we love our mugs!)
Here’s Karen reading and drawing some of the class as their favourite vegetables. One day somebody may pick an aubergine, but until then its good to know that everyone loves broccoli…
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Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival
On Saturday 23rd October we’ll be taking part in the 2nd Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival.
Come along for a special Stripy Storytime 11.30am at the Bookseller Crow – Crystal Palace’s top indie bookshop.
Theres a whole day of fantastic free events, with lots of local (and not so local) children’s authors and illustrators (and nice and easy to get to on the new East London line).
You can find out more about what’s in store here…
…and don’t forget to wear something STRIPY!
UPDATE:
Thanks SO much to Alex and all involved in the fabulous Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival, we had a great time there a few weeks ago. Here are some pictures courtesy of the lovely people at My Favourite Books Blog
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Magnificent Masks
A big thank you to all the magnificent mask makers who came down to the Discover Centre in Stratford on Saturday!
Everyone did a marvellous job – we all had a great sticky, painty, messy afternoon! Thanks too to Kate and Jonathan at Discover for their hard work, help and tea!
Karen and the real Stripy Horse?
And these are surely stripy horse’s dotty little sisters?
If you couldn’t come along, we plan to upload a template and instructions on how to make your own stripy horse mask very soon- keep your eyes peeled!
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Who’s This Stripy Horse?
Here’s Karen as you’ve never seen her before! She’s been hard at work making Stripy Horse masks for our storytelling and art workshop at Stratford’s wonderful Discover story centre in East London – find out more about it here.
This will be our second visit to Discover – we’ll be reading ‘Look Out, Stripy Horse!’ and ‘Hold On Tight, Stripy Horse!’ then helping everyone make their own mask to take home.
Its all happening on Saturday 17th July, and the event is absolutely free – so do come along if you can!
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