WORLD BOOK DAY Part One: CLAUDE and Sir Bobblysock Fashion Show

Cor! Would you look at these lovely CLAUDE fans! Don't they look spiffing?!

It was World Book Day on Friday and all over the UK, children and teachers were going into schools dressed as their favourite book characters. And our new best friends Charlie, Tilly and Caitlin decided to go dressed as us! I blushed all the way from the toes of my shineyshoes to the top of my beret when I saw them and Sir Bobblysock had to sit on the sofa with a bunch of chilled grapes on his forehead.

We are so excited and delighted and waggy-tailed about these photos and think our friends look marvellous!

And, we must say a HUGE great big thank you to their wonderful mums who not only whizzed these costumes up, but took the time to photograph them and send them to us via Twitter. 

So thank you @katejones11 (Charlie's Mum) @debsmonkey (Tilly's Mum) and @natfantastic (Caitlin's Mum). You all deserve a a fruity cocktail like Sir Bobblysock drinks!

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Caitlin's lovely mum also wrote this jolly nice blogpost about Sir Bobblysock. Such kind words. Sir Bobblysock had a fit of the vapours over it. He's never had a blog post all about him before!

CLAUDE: Hungarian madness!

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The lovely, but BONKERS, Hungarian publishers of our first three books have made these brilliant animated trailers for us! Sir Bobblysock is hoping to win an Oscar next year for his role in them...

CLAUDE at Bedtime

Well, would you look at that!

Sir Bobblysock and I have just had this lovely photo sent to us on Twitter of our book CLAUDE at the CIRCUS being shared at bedtime. It was sent to us by the lovely Michelle (@michlan) who is RAWTHER keen on us it seems. She strikes us as the sort of lady we would enjoy having a nice cup of tea and a sit down with.

Talking of Twitter, make sure you follow us on there: @CLAUDE_and_SirB

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day from Me, CLAUDE and Sir Bobblysock!

xxx

Up for an award, if you please!

Good Gracious! We are up for an award!

Our first adventure, Claude in the City, is shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award! 

When we found out Sir Bobblysock was beside himself and he's still as high as a kite. So am I. I've had to break into my Emergency Juicy Bone Baguette to keep my blood sugar up and Sir Bobblysock has had one cup of tea after another.

The winners are announced on 28th March in London so I'll be dusting off my smarted beret and Sir Bobblysock's going to have his roots done specially for the occasion.

We do love a party!

Yet another happy (beret-wearing) reader!

Look at this lovely young lady! Doesn't she look lovely with her beret worn at the correct regulation jaunty angle!

This little Claude fan is none other than Mya (aka Chickpea) whose clever mummy Teri won a copy of our new book "Claude at the Circus" when it came out last month.

Thank you Teri for sending us this picture. Sir Bobblysock's going to look out a nice frame for it and put it in pride of place on his desk so he can look at it whilst he writes his autobiography.

The competition was run on Twitter where we have our own twitter account ( @CLAUDE_and_SirB) and our friend Alex T. Smith is also on there too (@Alex_T_Smith). Why not join us all and have a chinwag?

THE GREAT CLAUDE ART COMPETITION!

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*Toodle- ooooo <--- FANFARE!*

It gives me (and Claude and Sir Bobblysock) great pleasure to announce an exciting competition!

I am busily working on the next three Claude adventures and on the last page of each book we would like to feature a piece of child's artwork in the new 'Friends of Claude' section. We did this in the new book CLAUDE AT THE CIRCUS and you can see the lucky contributor here. (Thank you Lovely Poppy!)

So... click on the image above for all the details. You could download it if you like and put it up in your school or library or local bookshop. 

I can't wait to see what you go and I will also throw in a signed copy of the book with your/ your child's artwork in when the books publish over the next 18 months!

GOOD LUCK!