You might be interested to know that we have also produced a set of Seriously Silly Audio Books, read by Neil Morrisey and a new set of Seriously Silly Rhymes:
‘Mary, Mary, Fried Canary’, ‘Old King Cole Played in Goal’, ‘Little Bo Peep Has Knickers That Bleep’ and ‘Ding, Dong, Bell, What’s That Funny Smell?’.
We have also started work on a 26 part Seriously Silly animated TV series, but that is TOP SECRET, so I definitely won’t mention it.

Were you a genius at school?

A lot of people think that authors must be alien beings with brains as big as a football stadium. Well, it ain't true! Most authors are ordinary humanoids with brains like tinned prunes, (some very old authors have brains like salted peanuts). When I was at school, I was not very clever at all; my Maths was sort of 2+1=6ish and my spelling woz evun wurs,

BUT I always loved reading and was keen on drawing; I also had lots of weirdly wonderful ideas. (My teachers didn't know what to do with me except beat me quite a lot.)

I bet you’ve never won any awards or prizes, have you?

Are you kidding? I’ve got a whole barn full of them. Book awards include the Smarties Gold Award twice, (for ‘Snow White and the Seven Aliens’ in 1999 and ‘Chimp and Zee’ in 2001),
(Left to right: JK.Rowling, Konnie from Blue Peter, Julia Donaldson, Laurence Anholt, Arthur Robins at Smarties Award ceremony)