Big thanks to Islay Book Festival for the Reeve & McIntyre invitation to visit the island this year! I've been to Islay and the festival several times: first when I was twelve, then signing books in 2018, events with Philip for the festival in 2019, virtually during Lockdown with Kevin, a Grumpycorn party at The Celtic House in 2022. I love going ( Read more... )

Can there be a back-stage festival room anywhere in the world with such a terrific view through the window? Here's my Adventuremice series co-author Philip Reeve with me, ready to go on stage in the new Edinburgh Book Festival venue. The festival's no longer based on Charlotte Square, but at Edinburgh College of Art, which has its pros and cons: we ( Read more... )

What with one thing another, Reeve & McIntyre haven’t had a chance to visit many bookshops lately - so we thought we’d send Kevin the Roly Poly Flying Pony on a grand bookshop tour for us.


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I often run into writer-illustrator-performer James Mayhew at book festivals, along with his partner Antonio Reche Martinez, and we've always talked about meeting up for dinner or something, but until now it had never happened. So when the invitation came to spend A WHOLE WEEK with James, teaching a Picture Books course, I absolutely jumped at it ( Read more... )

Directly after Islay Book Festival, the Reeve & McIntyre road trip hit Fife!


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Last week Reeve & McIntyre were in the Hebrides for Islay Book Festival!


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Since Philip Reeve and I were in Scotland last week visiting Wallace Primary School with UKLA, we added on an extra visit through to Edinburgh, to Leith Walk Primary School. Philip had visited it last year, and enjoyed the visit so much that he was keen for both of us to go back. And I could see why! The school was bubbling over with enthusiasm and ( Read more... )

This week Reeve & McIntyre made a very special visit!


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Earlier this year Stuart and I went on a Scottish Book Trust tour where two fab book people named Beth and Thomas drove us right up to the north of Scotland and worked our way back down, visiting lots of schools on the way. (You can read about that in an earlier blog post here.) So I've spent a lot of time in this car - as do a lot of illustrators ( Read more... )

All this week I've been on an illustration book tour of the Scottish Highlands! At first I thought I was going to have to do it solo, but I asked Beth Bottery at Scottish Book Trust if I could bring Stuart along and she said yes. Then all my knitted book characters decided they wanted to come along, too.


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