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In October, Picture Book Club was lucky enough to have a visit from innovative children's book publisher, Tiny Owl. We met in Waterstones in Reading and the cake, baked by Kate Poels, is still spoken of in hushed reverent tones. The meeting was a fantastic opportunity to hear from Tiny Owl themselves about their submission [...]

In a new adventure for Picture Book Club we’ve decided to offer you something in between IRL meetings to satisfy you’re craving for all things picture book related! Our very first present is an interview with debut picture book author, Leonie Roberts. Hi Leonie! Your book ‘My Colourful Chameleon’ is out now in the US [...]

November saw us welcome Anna McQuinn from Alanna Books to PBC. I've been wanting Anna to come for a long time and so it was such a pleasure to finally be able to say hello and make a Zeki cake! Anna has so much experience and wisdom to share. Anna sort of fell into being [...]

Those of you that follow me on Twitter @Fi_BGB will know that I have recently signed a contract with Tiny Tree Books to publish my next picture book in 2018. I thought I would tell you a bit about how this new exciting development came about. One day early in 2017 I was messing about [...]

October saw the first birthday of Picture Book Club and we were delighted to welcome Tiny Owl Publishing to our meeting to help us celebrate in style. This meeting was ably organised by Kate Poels who led proceedings on the night. Our speaker was Karim Arghandehpour, assisted by his son Matin. Delaram Ghanimifard sent her [...]