Jane Clarke

Hello!
 Thanks for clicking on my PictureBookDen page.

Here are links to some of my blog posts on the den:
'MY TOP THREE SURREAL EDITORIAL COMMENTS' 'TEN SIGNS THAT YOU'RE A PICTURE BOOK WRITER' 'DARNITDIPITY' 'COMPOSTING' 'READING ALOUD' 'REJECTION' 'SHARKS TEETH' 'PERSISTENCE' 'DOG PHILOSOPHY' 'ANIMAL CHARACTERS' 'PING MOMENTS' 'GETTING CRAFTY' 'SCISSOR HAPPY'

I’m passionate about picture books. My stories have been matched with some wonderful illustrators. The best moment is seeing the pictures for the first time. I hope someone somewhere is treasuring a crumpled copy of one of my picture books the way that I treasure the books I read to my sons when they were small. Now I'm a proud grandma of four small granddaughters, it's a huge joy and privilege to read picture books to them.

My latest picture books are gloriously illustrated by Britta Teckentrup:

You'll find colouring sheets for these on the Picture Book Den's free download page, together with some from my other picture books including:

illustrated by Emma Dodd

illustrated by Migy Blanca

illustrated by Charles Fuge

Older picture books include the award winning Gilbert the Great, Gilbert in Deep and Gilbert the Hero, all brilliantly illustrated by Charles Fuge, too.

Then there's Stuck in the Mud, illustrated by Garry Parsons

and Knight Time and Knight School, illustrated by Jane Massey. You may have heard them being read on CBeebies.


You'll find other picture books of mine on my website
 www.jane-clarke.co.uk

Here's my new series of toddler board books, illustrated by Georgie Birkett

As well as picture books, I also write early reader books and reading scheme stories

and I have ghost written  for several series including Dinosaur Cove, which I really enjoyed writing a lot as my hobby is fossil collecting.

Then there's  my 10 book Dr KittyCat series (which explains why you sometimes find me dressed up as a furry first aid cat)

And the 4 books in the Al's Awesome Science series, illustrated by James Brown, which you may have seen in the UK Summer Reading Challenge. The stories involve lots of sciency mayhem, and so do the sessions I do in libraries...

You'll also find lots of my poems published in many children’s anthologies.

It's great fun being a full time children’s writer and I love to visit nurseries, infant and primary schools to share my books and talk about being an author and to run poetry and/or creative writing workshops for children.

Thanks for reading my page on the Picture Book Den. You can find out more about me through my website www.jane-clarke.co.uk  and contact me via the site or
https://twitter.com/JaneClarkeWrite

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