Chirp outtakes (wheel painting)

Last May we made a story about wheels for Chirp magazine. We tried all sorts of wheels and cars, but we only had room for a few of our vehicles in the story. Some of the tests we did were quite funny. Our favourite one is probably the cherry-tomato-tin-can car. The tape-dispenser-jalopy and the bananamobile are quite funny, too. What would you use to make wheels?

These are are some more of the vehicles from the cutting room floor.

Foggy outtake

In many ways editing is one of the most difficult challenge of writing a children's book. You can only use so many images, and you often have to choose only the ones which really serve the story. This image of the City enveloped in fog was one of our favourite images, but there wasn't room for it in the book.

Edited to add that Sara O'Leary has a related post about writing children's books in her blog today.