I did put a mer-mouse in my book ‘Ruby Blue and Blanket’ and that book also has a horse dressing up as a unicorn! I also thought of doing an underwater story with toy fish, an octopus and crabs but decided I would have to make all those too and they are not as cuddly as the toys I use.
I would have to make one first though because I always work from real toys and I don’t have a toy unicorn. I nearly did a book about a unicorn once and I still think it’s a nice idea. We wondered if there are any animals you find tricky to draw? A few of the children suggested potential new characters, these included a magical unicorn and a squid called Inky. I use coloured pencils to do my drawings and you can’t cover the paper very quickly with those!Ģ. Most of my books are 32 pages so that means at least 32 illustrations plus the cover and the endpapers. It always takes me about a year to do a book 3 months to get the story right and to plan what will go on each page and the rest of the year to do the illustrations.
How long does it take to write and illustrate a book? I was so impressed, they came up with so many questions! Here’s a selection of them that we put to Jane along with her answers:ġ. After a lovely story time with 60 or so Year 2 children at the school I work in I set them the task of thinking of questions to ask Jane. We are hosting a Q & A session with Jane for our blog tour stop and who better to think of the questions than children who are enjoying her stories today. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be a part of this, I adored Jane Hissey’s books when I was younger and actually did a little squeal of excitement when my copy of the book arrived! You can read our review of this gorgeous new book here.
Old Bear was originally published 30 years ago and to celebrate this big birthday Jane Hissey has written a new story – Happy Birthday Old Bear. Welcome to our stop on the Happy Birthday Old Bear blog tour.
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