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Everything You Want to Know About Football! The Football School Returns!

Spike Gerrell is reunited with The Football School team, authors Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton for their latest fun-filled ENCYCLOPEDIA!...

Joseph Coelho and Friends - Ten-Word Tiny Tales

We celebrate this brilliant compendium by the Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate featuring artwork by Alex T. Smith along with other...

Football School: The Greatest Ever Quiz Book

It’s time to polish your football boots and leap off the subs bench for the latest glittering offering from the team behind the Football...

Time for Epic Football Fun Illustrated by Spike Gerrell

It's time to get your footie boots on and be inspired by a brand new collection of true life football stories from the creators of...

World Book Day 2021 Announcement

We are beyond excited with the recent World Book Day 2021 announcement, it's a bumper year for Arena Illustrators and we couldn't be...

GOAL! Football School Season 4 Illustrated by Spike Gerrell

Football School Season 4 Where Football Celebrates the World has finally hit the pitch. Written by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton and...

Levi Pinfold highlight feature in Illustration Magazine

It's always a delight to see our Illustrators talents spotlighted in art publications and this spring Levi Pinfold stars as a featured...

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Longlist Announced

This year we were thrilled to discover that former medal winner Levi Pinfold has been long listed for the 2020 Kate Greenaway medal...

Back of the Net with Spike Gerrell and Football School

The squad is expanding and the cup is in sight as we celebrate the imminent publication of Football School Star Players written by...

New work and in conversation with illustrator Frances Castle

We've spent some time in conversation with illustrator Frances Castle looking at her current projects and finding out more about her...

Between Worlds with illustrations by Frances Castle

As winter fast approaches, the nights draw in and the air begins to chill what better read than Between Worlds a beautifully curated...

The Dam by David Almond and Levi Pinfold

The Dam by David Almond and Levi Pinfold published by Walker Books is a striking and moving story of loss, hope and the enduring power...

Football Crazy, Football Mad

In the run up to the FIFA World Cup we are celebrating all things football with footy fans Spike Gerrell and Simon Bartram. ...

Double Mega Lols with the LOLLIES

It's that time again with a huge chuckle filled fanfare the 2018 Lollies shortlist has been announced and it includes two magnificent...

Adam Stower: Animals Behaving Badly

Adam Stower's lively illustrations just leap off the pages of this fabulous new book, "Animals Behaving Badly" by Nicola Davies, published...

Spike Gerrell illustrates Football School, Where Football Rules the World

This is the perfect non fiction book for any football mad kid, who can learn about other subjects through the prism of football. Spike...

3 Arena Artists Nominated for Coventry Inspiration Book Awards - update

Neal Layton, Alex T. Smith and Thomas Flintham have been nominated in the Coventry Inspiration 2017 Book Awards....

Neal Layton, The Tree

Children's illustrator Neal Layton's newest picture book is here, The tree. Home to a family of birds in their nest, but what happens...

Neal Layton: CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Nomination

Congratulations to Neal Layton for being nominated for the much coveted CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2016 for illustrating the interactive...

Chris Garbutt: It's a Groovy World, Alfredo! Debut Picture book

Chris Garbutt's long-awaited debut picture book, It's a Groovy World, Alfredo! written by Sean Taylor, is published by Walker on 4th June...

Q&A Artist Profile Neal Layton

Award-winning Neal Layton still manages to fit some interesting hobbies into his busy life as a children's book illustrator. We look...

Q&A Chris Garbutt Artist Profile

Chris Garbutt's love affair with doodling has taken him on a creative journey that has explored a diverse range of roles in illustration...