Hi Andrea and Vashti, It’s wonderful to ‘meet’ you! Thank you for taking the time to chat to me about your beautiful new bedtime story, I Love You Like Yellow. I adored this book – it’s so heart-warming and playful. I was especially struck by how well the text and illustrations complement each other. Can you walk me through your collaboration process? Andrea: Thank you! I love Vashti’s illustrations so much. While I could never have imagined what she was going to do, her imag

Little did I know when I decided to write a book for children on the subject of Bigfoot - also known as Sasquatch - that would I tumble down the rabbit hole so comprehensively. Three and a half years later and two books on the subject completed, I’ve read most of the books out there and watched all of the documentaries. I have read the independently tested DNA results, which confirm that ‘an unknown relic hominid’ is living in the remote regions of North America. Is there any

We have been making books as a double-act for over 25 years and on themes from nature to history and everything in between. Our last book for Otter Barry Books was The History of Prehistory, a picture book that uses time-travelling children. They explore volcanoes and ride on mammoths and explain the pre-history of earth all the way to the first written word. After that ‘mammoth’ task we began to wonder what was next. I grew up in Sweden, and we now have a small house close t

I’ve always fancied the idea of being a judge in a literary competition and I’m always prepared to give a book recommendation or opinion in any situation. While I’m still waiting for the Women’s Prize to call, I did have the privilege of being invited to chair one of the shortlisting panels for the 2022 Spark! School Book Awards, based in my local borough of Kingston upon Thames. While the inner workings of the Women’s Prize remain a mystery to me, I am pleased to offer a sne