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Sunday 26 June 2016

PRINCE RIBBIT Project and The Big Friendly Read

Alex's characterful cover for the Captain's Close edition of Prince Ribbit
with Poly Bernatene's cover for the actual book.

Hi Captain's Close!

I hope you enjoyed illustrating Prince Ribbit last week. I certainly enjoyed looking through all of your wonderful artwork.

The covers designs for the six class editions.

I could see that a lot of thought had gone into character drawings and spread designs and there was some clever use of typesetting from some of the older classes.

The Robins Class edition

I had a hard time choosing just 17 pieces for the school edition …

Me with the 17 illustrators of the school edition

… and illustrator Poly Bernatene had an even harder time picking just one favourite spread.
Congratulations to Scarlett from Robins Class for being Poly’s favourite illustrator!

Poly chose this spread by Scarlett as his favourite 

Click here to see the whole school edition and download your own copy




The Big Friendly Read


Don't forget to go along to Melton Mowbray Library from Saturday 9th of July to sign up for The Big Friendly Read.  You can find out more about it at The Big Friendly Read Web Site.



And have you got you read the Raring Readers Summer Newsletter yet?