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philipardagh.bsky.social
Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
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@mellingart.bsky.social not sure just HOW many publication dates our latest book has... but who cares!

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High praise, indeed, from Kirkus Reviews for @mellingart.bsky.social's illustrations in DO YOU SEE THE TIGER? (Kirkus is a highly respected, long-standing US book review magazine.) No mention of the beauty of my text, of course, because it requires praise beyond words! @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

#NewIllustrationoftheDay. Polished work by David Melling from Do You See the Tiger?, with text by Philip Ardagh. In which a child is the only person who sees the tiger on the underground. Out from Walker Books on 20 May. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @philipardagh.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

1/2 Back in the early '60s I had poetry book which included Walter de la Mare's 'Some One [Came Knocking]'. Next to it was an illustration of a simple door and some foliage in the foreground; When you looked closely, however, amongst the leaves was a tiny little man dressed in green running off...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Evidence of my having eaten two of my five-a-day. Admittedly, the remains of my apple is harder to spot because I ate everything but the stalk. It's the way I roll.

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I'm one of those 8% of men who find it hard to differentiate between certain greens and certain browns - described as green red 'colour blindness' but, in my case, more of a colour deficiency, so imagine my DELIGHT when this worked for me almost instantly. I hope it works for YOU.

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1/3 "IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY..." Well, not to the very day but - amazingly - it's 20 years since #PaulMcCartney's book HIGH IN THE CLOUDS was published, illustrated by Geoff Dunbar and co-written by me, the extraordinarily lovely and talented Philip Ardagh... #PaulMcCartney

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I READ CAREFULLY: I was out and about in my wicker bath chair when my companion pointed to this sign and said, "Why on Earth does it say, 'I read carefully,'" to which I replied, with the wit and erudition for which I'm famous on seven continents, "I think you'd better read it MORE carefully."

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So very true. "Don't speak to the President of the United States like that," is easily countered with, "Then don't disgrace the office of the Presidency with your lies." I have every respect for the Presidency of the United States but none for Trump.

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With bookshops closing for the day, I do hope you've armed yourselves with copies of DO YOU SEE THE TIGER? - or have ordered it from your local library - and have since returned home to read to your cubs. What a splendid publication day! @mellingart.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You don't have to be a GREAT BIG tiger to enjoy DO YOU SEE THE TIGER? Little ones should enjoy it, too. And it's published today: 1st May. @mellingart.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Spotted in the wild! AUTHOR-SIGNED COPIES of DO YOU SEE THE TIGER? word-wrangled by me and illustrated by @mellingart.bsky.social. They're to be found in Rother Books, Battle, East Sussex (beautifully modelled for us here by proprietor, Ian). Hurry, before they escape! @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

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Today's the day my DO YOU SEE THE TIGER? - illustrated by the wonderful @mellingart.bsky.social - hits UK bookshop shelves. Ouch! As with all @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social titles, it has been pored over by experts... who declared it a rip-ROARING read. "It's certainly earned its stripes."

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

So very true. "Don't speak to the President of the United States like that," is easily countered with, "Then don't disgrace the office of the Presidency with your lies." I have every respect for the Presidency of the United States but none for Trump.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

We live in exciting - and stripy - times, @mellingart.bsky.social!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Psst. Exciting HEADLINE NEWS tomorrow involving this tiger. Can’t say much more until then or I risk the wrath of @philipardagh.bsky.social who I believe has some vague connection although details escape me. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social are also involved. So remember; Thursday 1st May…TIGER.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

There it is, in a nutshell.

submitted 20 days ago • 828 comments

I have waited my whole life, for this moment....

submitted 21 days ago • 745 comments

For those who ask, "Is there no end to your talent?", here's the definitive answer. 😁

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Exciting stuff!

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

This is the letter C. C is for cat.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Look! Them there lovely Sunny Town Bunnies in BUNNIES ON A BUS, illustrated by the gorgeous @benmantle.bsky.social and published by ‬ @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social, is already in HARDBACK and PAPERBACK and now - yes now - out as a BOARDBOOK too!

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Watch out! There are BUNNIES ON THE BUS! And they aren't stopping for ANYONE! Bunnies on the Bus by @philipardagh.bsky.social and @benmantle.bsky.social is now available in board book format. It's a hilarious, chaos-filled delight to read this Easter! www.walker.co.uk/978152952472...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Next drop: Guano Coin.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Am at Battle Station waiting for a train to London. Any guesses as to where I'm going, when I get there or - if not where, exactly - what it might relate to? If only there were clues...

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