Arena Welcomes New Artist: Joe Lillington
We are thrilled to introduce Joe Lillington, an exciting new talent to our roster. Joe is a recent graduate from University College Falmouth and already has two picture books under his belt.
Will Broome launches kids Farfetch ranges
Fashion illustrator Will Broome was commissioned to help endorse and launch the new kids Farfetch ranges.
Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet shortlisted for the LOLLIES book award!
We are very excited to announce that Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, co-creators of veggie-hero, Supertato have been shortlisted for the best laugh out loud picture book award this year, for the brilliant I need a wee!
Hannah George Illustrates ‘Christmas Stories’
Hannah George was thrilled to be asked to illustrate 'Christmas Stories' for Macmillan Children's Books. This fabulous title features festive tales from some of the nations favourite authors and is brought to life by Hannah's fun illustrations.
Jonny Duddle: The Jolley Rogers and The Monster’s Gold
Ahoy there, me hearties! The Monster's Gold, Jonny Duddle's third book in the Jolley-Rogers series for 7 to 10 year olds, is published this month. Lavishly illustrated on nearly every page, this book is another swashbuckling pirate adventure, jam packed full of action and humour.
Our noisiest Storytime Sunday yet, with David Litchfield!
On Sunday 18th October we had a super noisy, bear themed Storytime Sunday hosted by the fabulous David Litchfield, who’s recently celebrated the release of his beautiful, debut author-illustrated book, The Bear and The Piano (Frances Lincoln).
Adam Stower Illustrates Richmal Compton’s William Again
Everyone's favourite troublemaker is back with a new edition of Just William covers by contemporary illustrators, published by Macmillan.
The Adventures of Long Arm illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff
Aleksei Bitskoff illustrates, The Adventures of Long Arm (Scholastic), a tale about schoolboy Ricky Mitre who is very naughty and gets into all sorts of trouble! After a bizarre toilet cleaning incident where his arm gets sucked into the U-bend, Ricky finds that when he takes it out again, it's many times its normal length. And so the superhero Long Arm is born!
Written by TV presenters SAM & MARK, this laugh-out-loud adventure is brought to life perfectly by Aleksei Bitskoff's hilarious characterisation.
Surrey Libraries Children’s Book Award 2015!
Congratulations to Hannah George and Jennifer Grey on winning The
Surrey Libraries Children's Book Award 2015!
We were delighted to hear that 'Chicken Mission - Danger In The Deep
Dark Woods' published by Faber Children’s scooped the prize. Hannah
loves illustrating these action packed adventures about Amy
Cluckbucket - The Kung Foo Chicken, with a few of the characters being
based on her own pet hens!
Hannah George is represented by Meiklejohn