When it comes to children’s picture books Emma Chichester Clark beats the competition hands down. Her illustrations are exquisite and witty and make readers, young and old alike, smile. I’ve bought loads of her books over the years and I can’t bear to part with a single one of them. Emma is a prolific artist and writer and this autumn she has two new books out. There’s the wonderful Plumdog, based ...keep reading
My daughter and my husband are in Paris this weekend. Their mission? To find a flatshare for her year at university there. Luckily they struck gold on the first day so they’ve spent the rest of the weekend with our dear Parisian friend Anne Marie. They’ve visited the Louvre, wandered along the Boulevard St Germain and watched the Bastille Day parades (complete with military jets trailing patriotic streaks of red, ...keep reading
I’ve been a fan of artist Emma Chichester Clark for more years than I can remember. When we moved house this year (aaagh – I’m still recovering) I took stacks of children’s books to a local primary school but I couldn’t bear to part with my Chichester Clark collection. I bought some of them (below) before my daughter was born – I Never Saw a Purple Cow and Listen to ...keep reading