New Artist: Roberta Bordone!

A very warm welcome to our super talented new artist, Roberta Bordone!
Roberta was born in San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy, 9 June 1990.
Between childhood and adolescence she cultivated a love for drawing and photography. After attending the Art School of Naples, she enrolled in the Institute of Visual Communication ILAS, where she obtained a graduation in advertising photography and followed this with a three-year course of Illustration at the Italian School of Comix.. She has collaborated with many publishers and today works in her studio, with her faithful dog, Febo by her side! Her work is strong, graphic and full of energy and colour and we can't wait to show you!

Del Thorpe new artwork for 'Maths on the Go', Square Peg publishing

We are pleased to announce the publication of Del Thorpe's latest work! His delightfully humorous illustrations appear in the new 'Maths on the Go' book, aimed at helping children with their learning! He was the perfect choice to add some light relief from all those difficult sums!

Busy mums or dads are crying out for quick and easy ways to help their children with primary school maths and beyond. Here are 101 simple tips, games and activities to make practising maths as engaging and enjoyable as possible, for you and your child. All can be incorporated into the everyday routine – at home and on the go – with minimal fuss and no expensive kit – helping children have fun with numbers. Indeed, most of the time they won’t even realise that maths is involved. Sneaky!

Areas covered include, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, ratio and proportion, telling the time, estimation, measurement, geometry and shapes, with an emphasis on problem solving throughout.

Runa Rudaya illustrates Jane Eyre!

We are thrilled with the recent work that Runa Rudaya has done with Collins, for their Big Cat Tales reading series. She has produced this stunning work for Jane Eyre, giving it new life with her unique style. This is a much loved classic, telling the story of the eponymous heroine, and Runa gives it a truly sophisticated makeover.

Gareth Lucas - Picture Puzzle Book for Usborne Publishing

We are so excited about the new work Gareth Lucas is doing with Usborne publishing. Just released, this January, is the fabulous Farm Picture Puzzle book, packed full of Gareth's stunning graphic art works. His images exude humour and warmth and are just perfect for this title. This hardback puzzle book is teeming with farm animals to spot, match and count. Children will be kept occupied for hours as they search the busy pages for the smallest butterfly, spot the two dancing pigs in a pigsty and discover hundreds of other farmyard details to talk about.