There are Cats in this Interview! (An Interview with Viviane Schwarz)

Illustrator Viviane Schwarz won a Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award in 2011 and in the same year was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Award. She’s also been shortlisted twice for the CILIP Greenaway award. Surely it can only be a matter of time until she walks away from a big award ceremony as the [...]

Robot awesomeness!

Welcome to Your Awesome Robot by Viviane Schwarz is the first publication from a new and very exciting looking imprint, Flying Eye Books. A craft book about building robot costumes out of cardboard boxes, Viv Schwarz’s book is like no craft book we’ve read before. It’s a bedtime story as well as a round-the-kitchen-table manual. [...]

Free activity sheets from Viviane Schwarz and Walker Books

Today’s first lot of free activities from children’s book authors and illustrators come from the fantastically talented Viviane Schwarz, author of There are Cats in this Book, one of J’s all time favourite books. On Viv’s blog you can download knitting patterns to create the cats in There are Cats in this Book. Not a [...]

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