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More awards
Brilliant brilliant news… The Last Viking has been listed in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2012! Notable Book, Picture Book of the Year category, CBCA Awards 2012 Shortlist, Early...
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Last Viking flying high
The Last Viking has won the 2012 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ (SCBWI) Crystal Kite Award. This is a members’ choice award. Writers and illustrators from each region voting on...
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Knut II: The Lost Vikings
After tinkering at the edges since last July, James and I have started working on the sequel to The Last Viking. The working title is to be The Lost Vikings and it is set a year or two in future when...
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Prepare your classroom for a Viking invasion
Display by Gidgegannup Primary School students at heARTlines Festival 2011. Teacher: Trevor Dent. It’s August, which means Children’s Book Week is fast approaching. If you’re a teacher, maybe you’d...
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Young Josh is very brave…
You’ve gotta’ love Children’s Bookweek. This is Josh from Dalyellup Primary School on the coast near Bunbury in WA. His school librarian, Heather Lindsay, invited me to her school to meet all the...
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Award-winning Viking display by young berserkers
Norm and I were stunned to see the following Viking-inspired artwork from year 2s at Guildford Grammar in Western Australia. There’s Viking helmets, self-portraits with rune-encoded titles, and...
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Make-your-own Viking god or goddess
One of the best parts of school visits is seeing the great ideas that schoolkids come up with. Here’s a bunch of viking god and goddesses, designed by students during children’s book week this year....
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Studio Open Day- Sunday Nov 25, 2-5pm
My studio is in a Leederville complex called The Ward, and on Nov 25th we’re having an open day! Come see where I work and what I’m working on next. I’ll have prints from ‘The Last Viking’ for sale...
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The kids’ votes are in – The Last Viking wins the 2012 Hoffman Award!
The Last Viking has won the Hoffman Award in the 2012 West Australian Young Readers’ Awards. The Hoffman is awarded to the highest-ranked book by a West Australian creator (in this case, 2 creators!)....
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Viking longship-builders in Murwillumbah
These incredible longships were handcrafted by Year 4 viklings at St Joseph’s Primary School in Murwillumbah. Their teacher Deborah Walker has put in a huge effort. Thanks for bringing the book to life...
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Sneak Peek
Hello readers! We’ve been away for a bit. But Norm and I have been working on something new. Hopefully I’ll have a cover image to reveal in the next month. In the meantime, here’s a section from one of...
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The Last Beserker?
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; I was just send this fabulous photo of Toby by his proud grandmother, Margaret Eaton. Toby is the five year old son of multi-award winning author of stacks of great...
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The Last Viking Returns
It’s coming. October 2014. For progress updates, subscribe to the blog (on the right)… …or follow our facebook page.
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I wish I could paint this fast
Here’s a timelapse of me painting a page from The Last Viking Returns. This page features Odin and his ravens, as well as Freya (the goddess of love and beauty), Sigurd (blacksmith to the gods), and...
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Coming Up with a Decent Title
Deciding on the title for our new book took some effort. A good title has to give a hint at what the book is about, but at the same time, be obscure enough to have a little mystery about it. That...
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Sigurd, a Hero for October 2014
Here is the same blog as last tine, but with a new Featured Image (and a spelling error corrected). Wow, I’ve just discovered that James and I are in good company. One afternoon after we had a done a...
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Character design – Josh/Knut
Between now and the launch of The Last Viking Returns (Sept 1st, 2014), I’m going to do a series of posts showing my rough sketches for all the characters in the book. I’m starting with the family...
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Character designs – Wolverine and the lady dog
Between now and the launch of The Last Viking Returns (Sept 1st, 2014), I’m doing a series of posts showing my rough sketches for all the characters in the book. Next up in the family is Wolverine,...
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The Last Viking Returns – front cover timelapse
The Last Viking Returns, the sequel to our children’s book The Last Viking, will be released September 1 this year. In this post we reveal the cover for The Last Viking Returns! I’ll also show a...
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Character design – the twins
Between now and the launch of The Last Viking Returns (Sept 1st, 2014), I’m doing a series of posts showing my rough sketches for all the characters in the book. Next up in the family are the twins....
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