So yesterday Nikki Gamble was tweeting this from the dressing rooms at Chelmsford's Cramphorn Theatre... who could these people be? (Ha ha, we were half hoping someone would draw the top part of the photo.)


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Here's a new winter version of the Just Imagine logo I created for the story centre in Chelmsford, Essex, last year.


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Last night a bunch of us trundled out to Chelmsford in Essex (which is not so very far from London) to have supper and a good laugh with Nikki Gamble, founder of Write Away children's book consultation company (with all its creator interviews, book reviews and book-based lesson plan ideas) and, as of late, owner of the marvelous Just Imagine ( Read more... )

Hey, The Guardian recently mentioned the Make-your-own-Monster Mega-Challenge event that I did at the Just Imagine centre in Chelmsford, Essex with fab friend and writer Steve Cole! There's a good section in it about story centres and the rise of them, (particularly as so many libraries are getting the government axe.. and yes, dear, we're still ( Read more... )

On Saturday, a whole lot of vision and backbreaking labour paid off... Just Imagine went LIVE! Chelmsford now has one of Britain's best children's bookshops, but even more than that, plenty of space for loads of workshops, storytelling sessions, puppetry, dress-up theatre, animation, music, crafts and more.


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Saturday, the 15th of January is a BIG DAY! And you know why? Because the amazing Nikki Gamble is launching a new centre - called Just Imagine - that's going to host all sorts of comics workshops, storytelling, costume drama, drawing extravaganzas and mad creative scribbling sessions. Fabulous news for kids, parents, people who love stories and ( Read more... )