Elizabeth Dale adds to her pile of 25 published books!

Elizabeth  Dale

Elizabeth Dale dreamed of being a writer but somehow got side-tracked into doing a physics degree and managing the NHS. When her daughters were born she returned to her dream, writing thousands of short stories for magazines all over the world. But she enjoyed reading children’s books to her daughters so much, she decided to try writing them and found it such fun. 

She’s had an amazing twenty-five books published, from picture-books to age 11, other recent books are - When Betsy Came to Babysit (Tamarind), The Carrot Cake Catastrophe (Gullane) and three Igloo story collections. Elizabeth lives in a village in Sussex and is a stalwart member of Chi SCBWI.

Off to Market was published  by Frances Lincoln on 3rd January 2013

My Secret Alien was published by Egmont for their  Green Banana imprint on 4^th March

Creating the artwork for my new book

By Lynne Chapman

I'm a bit behind with my 'Swap! artwork, so no more time for filming: it been head-down-time this week.

This was my desk on Friday night. I have decided to treat myself to some bigger, bolder bits of artwork for the next few days, having focussed on vignettes for quite a few days now, which are so fiddly. The joy of these bigger, simpler images is that you cover vast areas of the paper really quickly, so get a great sense of achievement.

Of course, having blocked in the main areas, I still have to slow down and fill in all the detail, but at least I have the sensation of having got lots under my belt to start with.

I'm working on two at once like this when I can: it helps to speed things up when the images contain similar content. If you want to learn more about how I create my pastel artwork, take a look at my YouTube channel or the films page of my website.