Thank you to all the schools, festivals, universities, art colleges and especially children I have visited this academic year. It has been a huge pleasure to see the enthusiastic response to my new book ‘REX’. As always, it’s been a busy year but I would particularly like to mention Broadfields Primary School in Edgware, London, for a terrific day, and also the Bournville Children’s Book Festival, I wish them further great success for next year.

I also had a wonderful time with all the staff and children at Topsham Primary School. I very much enjoyed meeting and talking to the inspiring PGSE trainee teachers at Plymouth University. My first trip to the Chipping Norton Book Festival was met with a warm welcome, I do hope to visit again. Visits to Oxford and Stratford book festivals were also delightful. My visit to Mount Tamar School, a specialist residential school, left me full of admiration, thank you to all the staff and children there too.

There are too many visits to list here, but perhaps I should mention Harrowbarrow, Copplestone, Victoria Road, Mary Dean schools and even more schools from Cornwall to Birmingham to Brighton, who have all made it a very rewarding year.

It’s always a pleasure (and relief) to leave the studio with a new book and get to see it work with children in schools. Thank you to each and everyone of you I have met on my travels. I hope you still enjoy your reading, writing and drawing.