David Tennant reads Emily Brown and the Elephant Emergency, illustrated by Neal Layton and written by Cressida Cowell.

Mark Robertson’s picture book, Food Chain, has been shortlisted in the Best Children’s Illustrated Books 2009 category in The English Association Awards.

Jonny Duddle’s first picture book, The Pirate Cruncher, has been shortlisted in the Best Children’s Illustrated Books 2009 category in The English Association Book Awards.

My sketchbooks are an unruly mixture of ideas and observational sketches with a scattering of scrawled phone numbers, shopping lists, snatches of random conversation

Frances Castle has been refining her artwork style further using a limited palette and simpler stronger compositions

Last week readers of The Bookseller were treated to a preview of Alex T Smith’s forthcoming book, Egg.

Here are some pages from Matt Buckingham’s fantastic new book, The Vikings, which he illustrated for Wayland.

Christopher Gibbs illustrated the Radio Times’ radio feature on this year’s Reith Lectures delivered by astronomer, Martin Rees.

This is Spike (the one with the woolly hat)

Over recent years, my work has gradually developed into a pretty neat and tidy style of illustration. It is a way of creating pictures that feels natural to me.