I will be at the Young Readers Birmingham 2012 Festival on Saturday 9th June, where I will be having fun with 'Monty and Milli'. 

For more information and to see a Q&A I did with the organisers, click here...

I have a magical launch planned for ‘Monty and Milli’ (which is already being reprinted.)

Kazaam! Kazim! Kazoom!

I will be visiting the Hay Festival, Birmingham Readers Festival, Bath Children's Literary Festival, Newcastle City Library and Waterstone's Bookshops in Abergavenny and Newcastle.

Come along and have some fun! Here are few more details...

My first book with Nosy Crow, 'Hubble Bubble Granny Trouble' has been shortlisted for the Hillingdon Picture Book of the Year 2012!

This is really great, following the success of 'The Grunt and the Grouch', which won in 2011.

A new Young Fiction series, published by Scholastic Children's Books will be published in June 2012.

Perfect for reading together or for children who are just starting to read alone. Filled with gorgeous illustrations. Willow Valley is a very special place. Nestled in a hidden valley, trees of all shapes and sizes grew on the rolling green hills and pretty flowers dance in the meadows. Only the animals who live there know their way in and out, but they hardly ever want to leave because they're having too much fun! Follow the adventures of best friends, Riley the mouse, Starla the badger and Horatio the hedgehog...

Reviews of It's Potty Time, in New Zealand's KIWIreviews, have hailed this book as "the secret weapon" in the fight to get children potty trained...

...One review said, "Overall, a wonderful book, and well worth it. For any adult who is going through that delightful stage of parenthood...this indeed may be the kryptonite you need."

Another review claimed, "This book turns the difficult task of toilet training into a fun, interactive story. Even Dad loved it!"

Saturday 10th December: 2.30 - 3.30pm

I’ll be presenting Plip, my ‘Brave Little Penguin’ at the Discovery Centre in Stratford, London. The children will all have an opportunity to make their own gorgeous little Sockybug puppets to take home (as Sockybug is Plip’s special friend!).

It is a fun family session and is open to the public. (I’m also doing sessions the day before but these are school ones.)

I got home after the end of my Halloween Tour to discover that Hubble Bubble Granny Trouble had been selected by The Times as one of their Halloween reads! A perfect end to the week!

The Stripey Tiger Tour 2011 is now finished! We celebrated Children's Book Week in style this year. We jumped into Little Tiger's very stylish tiger-striped people carrier and visited the North of England on a tour of schools and libraries. We saw children in Stockport, Preston and Lancaster and then went across to Hull, before finishing up the tour in Newcastle and heading back down south!

Read full story here

The Grunt and The Grouch has won the Hillingdon Picture Book of the Year for 2011. The prize, voted for by children, looks to find the favourite book of children from year 2.