Selby District Children's Reading Festival

This weekend saw the first Selby District Children's Reading festival. www.selbyCRF.com

Organised by the brilliant children's author Christina Gabbitas, creator of Felicity Fly and other poetry books for children. www.poemsandpictures.co.uk

I was invited along to sign my new book "I Want Puppy" and it was a brilliant success. Everybody seemed to enjoy the festival and hopefully it will be the first of many.

I sold several copies of my books including A Knight Before Christmas and the Dinki colouring book. One little boy spent ages scrutinising the Dinki Comic Collection and his mam ended up buying it for him, He was still reading it quite a while later as they were going.

The other authors and illustrators were really great to meet and the kids loved them. My boy Tommy particularly liked Blue Peter award winning Andy Seed and his new favourite superhero Rappaman (a.k.a. Donavan Christopher) who was really entertaining.

A quick update for 2017

Things are moving forward with more book and illustration projects coming together for 2017. I've also been working with Rich who has made great progress with bringing together a new more arcadey version of Zombie Piranha. I will post more updates and progress pics on the Putty CAD Games page here. We're aiming to have a fully playable version for the Leeds Games Expo in April.

I'm proud to once again be a judge and ambassador for Children's Reading Festivals UK. http://www.childrensreadingfestivals.com/ please check out the website for more details and if you have children make sure they check out the Poems and Pictures Poetry initiative created by Christina Gabbitas which is now in it's fifth year! Make sure you tell their teachers too, as the best poems will appear in the next volume of Children's Poems. The topics this year are Seasons and Climate Change.
http://www.poemsandpictures.co.uk/competition/index.html

I will also be attending the Selby children's Reading festival on Saturday 25th March. Please come along if you want a signed copy of my children's book A Knight Before Christmas. Click on the image below to visit the website.

Dinki's Dinosaur Adventure Colouring Book OUT NOW!

Dinkis-Dinosaur-Adventure-Colouring-Book

My first colouring book is out now! Please send photos if you buy it and let me know on twitter @cartoonsbyRic or @dinkidinosaur CHEERS! ;) Ric

Dinki - collected comics on Kindle!

Hello my friends! Just wanted to let you know that the Dinki comics collection is now available on Kindle as one bumper book featuring all 12 mini comics!

It's less than £2.50 for ALL 12 issues from the year of Dinki daily doodles 2013.

Grab it now on Kindle! If you need the app it works on all major platforms and devices!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B018KNBWOG?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

A Knight Before Christmas - OUT NOW on Kindle

My first children's picture rhyming book I wrote and illustrated is out now on Kindle.

Please check it out if you haven't seen it yet, if you don't have a kindle you can download the free kindle reader app for Windows/Mac and mobile devices:

Amazon Kindle - A Knight Before Christmas

V & A Children's Illustration awards

Author/publisher Christina Gabbitas (Poems and Pictures Ltd) has nominated the illustrations I did for her Children's Poetry books for a V & A award. You can read all about it on the official V&A website here:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/b/va-illustration-awards-2016/published/book-cover-illustrations/childrens-poems-invitation-captured