He is also a hugely talented illustrator and animation director whose previous clients have included Waterstones, Sainsbury's, Oxfam, The Independent, The Guardian, The FT, Channel 4, Virgin Mobile, Nokia, GQ, Haymarket and BAC. Flora’s verdict: “I enjoyed making and decorating the crown, and I liked dressing up with all of my jewellery the way a queen would. Fans of the series will love this outing as it is essentially more of the same, but delve a little deeper and it is playing with the lore of the world.

It’s World Book Day in the UK and Ireland today, one many parents approach each year with a stomach-clenching sense of dread. This hilarious and chaotic picture book will delight anyone who loves biscuits, truffles, cakes, pudding. It’s still going strong and has helped me to transform Flora into a wide variety of non-human characters on World Book Day – including, memorably, a cute little Hungry Caterpillar. The outfit: A dress with a pink twirly skirt (a ballet leotard would work equally well), and white tights to represent Angelina’s white fur. Learn to draw Quentin the duck from the picture book ‘Quick Quack Quentin’ written by Kes Gray and illustrated by me.won the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award and was shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award and the British Book Awards in 2016, amongst others. Helps to have: Jewel and star stickers for the crown, plus the two key weapons in every disorganised parent’s World Book Day arsenal: coloured card paper in a wide variety of colours and safety pins. Photograph: Donna Ferguson Flora Ferguson, pictured in feline-form with dog Rosie: ‘She didn’t like it, because I was a cat!

In this video I'll show you how to draw CAT from the 'Oi' series written by Kes Gray and illustrated by me. The combination of Gray's writing and Field's illustrations work wonderfully once again, no matter what Gray fires at Field, he can draw it. Find all the precious balls of fur, train your pattern recognition skills and improve your reflexes by playing FindCat. Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award, and been shortlisted for many more! Helps to have: A bag of colourful ribbons, I have discovered, can be very useful in a World Book Day crisis.FARMER CLEGG'S NIGHT OUT RICH WITCH POOR WITCH THE PARENT AGENCY THE PERSON CONTROLLER ANIMALCOLM MAGIC INK ALIENS STINK! Flora’s verdict: “I liked dressing up as a cat, because I could hiss at my dog, Rosie – and she didn’t like it, because I was a cat! It may seem like a simple task at first, but in some cases the sneaky little creatures can be very difficult to find. Armed with just four essential items – a professional face-paint kit, safety pins, a stash of coloured card and ribbons – I can throw together a World Book Day outfit in minutes, using the clothes in my daughter’s wardrobe.

Sometimes they are obscured by other objects in the frame, while at other times they are hiding in plain sight camouflaging themselves into the environment. Here are five options using things most of us will already have in the house, and a good daytime activity that will cheer up those still remote-learning in the UK. A brilliant rhyming read-aloud text, jam-packed with animals and silliness – perfect for children and parents alike. It’s a brilliant premise that can run and run, and with such appealing illustrations from Jim Field and such clever rhymes from Kes Gray, here’s hoping it does. Not many children's books create a universe in which the characters inhabit, but Gray has achieved it.

Dog tries to help, running through various rhyming combinations, but Frog’s rules are rules and Cat is stuck on the gnats, until Dog has a brainwave: what if Cat was a kitty, or a mog? Why we like this book: The illustrations are gorgeous and I like the way Angelina is determined to fulfil her dream of becoming a ballerina. In this video I'll show you how to draw Cyril the squirrel from the picture book ' The Squirrels Who Squabbled' written by Rachel Bright. A little girl imagines her busy Daddy as all sorts of animals during their packed day in a playful, warm story about a single father and his daughter. Why we like this book: The pictures of all the different knickers the Queen wears for different occasions are so funny, “especially the emergency knickers which have a parachute,” says Flora.