Nicolette Jones
@nicolettejones.bsky.social
Author
Sunday Times Children's Books
#NewIllustrationoftheDay
www.nicolettejones.com (relaunched site)
Events: [email protected].
RLF Bridge Yr 11/12 writing wkshops: [email protected]
Art by John Jones: www.johnedwardjones.co.uk
Sunday Times Children's Books
#NewIllustrationoftheDay
www.nicolettejones.com (relaunched site)
Events: [email protected].
RLF Bridge Yr 11/12 writing wkshops: [email protected]
Art by John Jones: www.johnedwardjones.co.uk
I spent #NationalIllustrationDay with illustrator Helen Oxenbury at the Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire, where the glorious exhibition of her work continues until 4 January.
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I spent #NationalIllustrationDay with illustrator Helen Oxenbury at the Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire, where the glorious exhibition of her work continues until 4 January.
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Matt Tavares from his neat and surreal Dasher and the Polar Bear, the third book in the bestselling Dasher series, with a polar bear riding in Santa's sleigh. Out since autumn from Walker Books. #NationalIllustrationDay @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @matttavares.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Matt Tavares from his neat and surreal Dasher and the Polar Bear, the third book in the bestselling Dasher series, with a polar bear riding in Santa's sleigh. Out since autumn from Walker Books. #NationalIllustrationDay @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @matttavares.bsky.social
A pause from the wintry #newillustrationoftheday images to draw attention to Helen Oxenbury’s current exhibition at the Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire and the fact that she and I will be in conversation at noon at the gallery tomorrow (28th). Here are the grandmothers from Trish Cooke’s So Much.
November 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A pause from the wintry #newillustrationoftheday images to draw attention to Helen Oxenbury’s current exhibition at the Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire and the fact that she and I will be in conversation at noon at the gallery tomorrow (28th). Here are the grandmothers from Trish Cooke’s So Much.
Another wintry #NewIllustrationoftheDay, a minimalist snowy spread with a sense of depth by Matt Hunt from How to Find a Yeti, in which the sharp-eyed can spot the outline of a yeti louring over the distant row of grey trees. The paperback published this autumn by Nosy Crow. @nosycrow.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Another wintry #NewIllustrationoftheDay, a minimalist snowy spread with a sense of depth by Matt Hunt from How to Find a Yeti, in which the sharp-eyed can spot the outline of a yeti louring over the distant row of grey trees. The paperback published this autumn by Nosy Crow. @nosycrow.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Guy Parker-Rees from a new board book edition of Giraffes Can’t Dance: Jingle Bells, with text by Giles Andreae. Anthropomorphic drawing that looks casual but convincingly gives animals unlikely moves. Orchard Books. @hachetteuk.bsky.social @guyparkerrees.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Guy Parker-Rees from a new board book edition of Giraffes Can’t Dance: Jingle Bells, with text by Giles Andreae. Anthropomorphic drawing that looks casual but convincingly gives animals unlikely moves. Orchard Books. @hachetteuk.bsky.social @guyparkerrees.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Nick Butterworth from a 2025 board book, The Greatest Snowman, in the Percy the Park-Keeper series Stories from Percy’s Park. Acrobatic squirrels on a sledge demonstrate Butterworth’s humour, fine draughtsmanship and skill with dramatic action. @harpercollins.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Nick Butterworth from a 2025 board book, The Greatest Snowman, in the Percy the Park-Keeper series Stories from Percy’s Park. Acrobatic squirrels on a sledge demonstrate Butterworth’s humour, fine draughtsmanship and skill with dramatic action. @harpercollins.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jane Hissey from her classic Jolly Snow, first published in 1993 & re-issued in paperback this autumn by Templar Books. Skilled photo-realism featuring her scrupulously depicted soft toys acting out a story that celebrates real and pretend snow. @templarbooks.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jane Hissey from her classic Jolly Snow, first published in 1993 & re-issued in paperback this autumn by Templar Books. Skilled photo-realism featuring her scrupulously depicted soft toys acting out a story that celebrates real and pretend snow. @templarbooks.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Italian graphic illustrator Lucia Gaggiotti, working in Ancona & the UK, from I Really Want to Help, with text by Simon Philip about a family’s Christmas preparations. Retro-inspired digital & mixed media image reminiscent of mid-century Disney. @templarbooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Italian graphic illustrator Lucia Gaggiotti, working in Ancona & the UK, from I Really Want to Help, with text by Simon Philip about a family’s Christmas preparations. Retro-inspired digital & mixed media image reminiscent of mid-century Disney. @templarbooks.bsky.social
A chance to buy original artworks from Axel Scheffler, Rebecca Cobb, Sydney Smith and many others who have featured in #NewIllustrationoftheDay. Bidding starts on 28 November, and bids start at £100. @childrensbkshow.bsky.social www.jumblebee.co.uk/thechildrens... #originalchildrensillustrations
The Children's Bookshow Art and Illustration Auction 2025
Make your bid in The Children’s Bookshow art and illustration auction and help support our programme of free in-school workshops in 2026.Each year, The Children's Bookshow gives 58 schools the incredi...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A chance to buy original artworks from Axel Scheffler, Rebecca Cobb, Sydney Smith and many others who have featured in #NewIllustrationoftheDay. Bidding starts on 28 November, and bids start at £100. @childrensbkshow.bsky.social www.jumblebee.co.uk/thechildrens... #originalchildrensillustrations
My piece in The Sunday Times about toys that come to life. Considering The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Classic Children’s Stories, my selection for Macmillan Collector’s Library. ‘What Buzz Lightyear owes to the Velveteen Rabbit.’ @panmacmillan.bsky.social @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
My piece in The Sunday Times about toys that come to life. Considering The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Classic Children’s Stories, my selection for Macmillan Collector’s Library. ‘What Buzz Lightyear owes to the Velveteen Rabbit.’ @panmacmillan.bsky.social @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Emma Dodd from Christmas Stars, a small, square picturebook celebrating Christmas. About a fox family in winter, drawn with simplified shapes and a dark outline. Silver highlights include the reflected tracery of trees. @templarbooks.bsky.social @emmadodd.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Emma Dodd from Christmas Stars, a small, square picturebook celebrating Christmas. About a fox family in winter, drawn with simplified shapes and a dark outline. Silver highlights include the reflected tracery of trees. @templarbooks.bsky.social @emmadodd.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Lauren Child from I am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas. How advent calendars are meant to be. This echoes the calendar on the previous page & so is Lola imagining herself into the scene. Perfect for the Xmas build-up. Out from Simon & Schuster.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Lauren Child from I am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas. How advent calendars are meant to be. This echoes the calendar on the previous page & so is Lola imagining herself into the scene. Perfect for the Xmas build-up. Out from Simon & Schuster.
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@simonkids.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sarah Warburton from A Christmas Delivery with text by Andy Shepherd. The sequel to The Boy who Grew Dragons. Vertical spread in which a flock of colourful dragons delivers an ice-formed wheelbarrow full of presents. @sarahwarburton.bsky.social @templarbooks.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sarah Warburton from A Christmas Delivery with text by Andy Shepherd. The sequel to The Boy who Grew Dragons. Vertical spread in which a flock of colourful dragons delivers an ice-formed wheelbarrow full of presents. @sarahwarburton.bsky.social @templarbooks.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Kate Hindley from The Night Before Christmas In Neverland with text by Carys Bexington in which even Captain Hook learns the joy of giving. Crisp cartoon of Hook writing his Christmas list with the crocodile at his feet. Macmillan paperback. @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Kate Hindley from The Night Before Christmas In Neverland with text by Carys Bexington in which even Captain Hook learns the joy of giving. Crisp cartoon of Hook writing his Christmas list with the crocodile at his feet. Macmillan paperback. @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jan Pienkowski. Annunciation, with angel arriving as Mary hangs out the washing, from The First Christmas with text from the King James Bible. Edition with illustrations in silhouette first published in 1981 and now re-issued by Puffin Books. @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jan Pienkowski. Annunciation, with angel arriving as Mary hangs out the washing, from The First Christmas with text from the King James Bible. Edition with illustrations in silhouette first published in 1981 and now re-issued by Puffin Books. @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Alex T Smith from a bind-up of three stories: Claude at Christmas: Three Books in One! Elegant and comic caricature with fine penmanship in black and red, from Santa Clause. Out in paperback last October from Hodder Children’s Books.
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Alex T Smith from a bind-up of three stories: Claude at Christmas: Three Books in One! Elegant and comic caricature with fine penmanship in black and red, from Santa Clause. Out in paperback last October from Hodder Children’s Books.
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Nick Sharratt from the reissued You Choose Christmas (with Pippa Goodhart), first out in 2023, inviting readers to choose baubles, food, Christmas sweaters, activities, presents …This cornucopia of a scene offers the chance to visit a bookshop @nicksharratt.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Nick Sharratt from the reissued You Choose Christmas (with Pippa Goodhart), first out in 2023, inviting readers to choose baubles, food, Christmas sweaters, activities, presents …This cornucopia of a scene offers the chance to visit a bookshop @nicksharratt.bsky.social
"This is about how you manage a massive festival when you’re so little and can’t possibly know what it all means."
My Books for Keeps interview with Lauren Child about her Charlie and Lola Christmas book. booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/the-... @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social
My Books for Keeps interview with Lauren Child about her Charlie and Lola Christmas book. booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/the-... @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"This is about how you manage a massive festival when you’re so little and can’t possibly know what it all means."
My Books for Keeps interview with Lauren Child about her Charlie and Lola Christmas book. booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/the-... @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social
My Books for Keeps interview with Lauren Child about her Charlie and Lola Christmas book. booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/the-... @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Tony Meeuwissen (digression from Christmas books) from a reissue of his Remarkable Animals, out from Otter-Barry Books on 13 Nov. One of 1000 permutations using 10 animals. In this case, Ruby-Topaz hummingbird with trunkfish and caterpillar. @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Tony Meeuwissen (digression from Christmas books) from a reissue of his Remarkable Animals, out from Otter-Barry Books on 13 Nov. One of 1000 permutations using 10 animals. In this case, Ruby-Topaz hummingbird with trunkfish and caterpillar. @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Sydney Smith. It's time I think for a run of Christmas books, starting with the paperback of Santa's First Christmas by Mac Barnett, out from Puffin since Oct. How Santa got to enjoy Christmas Day himself. Smith works his usual magic with light @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Sydney Smith. It's time I think for a run of Christmas books, starting with the paperback of Santa's First Christmas by Mac Barnett, out from Puffin since Oct. How Santa got to enjoy Christmas Day himself. Smith works his usual magic with light @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Neal Layton depicting the young Michael Rosen for the pb of Rosen‘s Hot Food Nice! which Walker Books published on 6 Nov. 13 Nov is Michael Rosen Day with 266,000+ children signed up to watch his livestreamed event. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Neal Layton depicting the young Michael Rosen for the pb of Rosen‘s Hot Food Nice! which Walker Books published on 6 Nov. 13 Nov is Michael Rosen Day with 266,000+ children signed up to watch his livestreamed event. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Australian author/illustrator Bob Graham from A Hatful of Dreams, a picturebook about domesticity and magic, family and community, imagination and Grandad's hat. Light-heartedly drawn, prettily coloured & carefully observed. Walker Books 6 Nov. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Australian author/illustrator Bob Graham from A Hatful of Dreams, a picturebook about domesticity and magic, family and community, imagination and Grandad's hat. Light-heartedly drawn, prettily coloured & carefully observed. Walker Books 6 Nov. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by John Devolle from Humans, a book of funny, flat, graphic images and few words, in the Big Science for Little Minds series. Look for the bats, flea, mouse, moth, spiders, seagull, badger, robin, chicken, other wildlife and pets. Pushkin 6 Nov. @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by John Devolle from Humans, a book of funny, flat, graphic images and few words, in the Big Science for Little Minds series. Look for the bats, flea, mouse, moth, spiders, seagull, badger, robin, chicken, other wildlife and pets. Pushkin 6 Nov. @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
From the green room at Stroud Book Festival yesterday. With Jamila Gavin, publisher Cally Poplak, and Michael Morpurgo. The event with Jamila and Michael about writing about the First World War was both moving and, unsurprisingly, a pleasure to chair. @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
From the green room at Stroud Book Festival yesterday. With Jamila Gavin, publisher Cally Poplak, and Michael Morpurgo. The event with Jamila and Michael about writing about the First World War was both moving and, unsurprisingly, a pleasure to chair. @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social