Stories bookshop in Launceston are now selling How BIG is BIG? Stories are at 160 Cimitiere St, Launceston.

The Yellow Shed are now selling my book How BIG is BIG? You can find The Yellow Shed at 2 Hyde Street, Bellingen.

Banjo Books in Epping are now selling my book How BIG is BIG? You can find Banjo’s at 4/2 Oxford Street, Epping, NSW or www.banjobooks.com.au.

Fairly recently (it’s taken me a litle while to get around to posting anything again) I completed some school readings of How BIG is BIG? to Woollahra Preschool in Double Bay and SDN Five Ways in Paddington. Reading to the kids was great fun and they had a lot of interesting questions about how I made the book and comments about what they saw in the book.

Megan the director of SDN Five Ways and the teacher of the Kookaburra’s class got the children to fly paper planes after my visit to see how their size changed as the planes flew away from them, which is a great exercise in showing how size can be relative.

So thanks to all of the kids and teachers at Woollahra Preschool and SDN Five Ways. And thanks to Del for organising my visits to both schools.

My book How BIG is BIG? is now available in the shops (well three bookshops at least anyway).

They are: Glebe Books (Sydney), Sandy Bay Newsagency & Bookshop (Hoabrt) and the Hobart Bookshop (Hobart).

My book How BIG is BIG? is back from the printers and it looks great.

How Big is the Earth?

The book is now available at www.howbigisbig.com.au. The website extends on the book providing a place where kids can continue to explore.

Today I did my first public reading of the book to the kindergarten kids at Darlington Public School which was great fun. There were plenty of questions for me to try and answer and the kids all had a good time. So thanks to Darlington Public.

How BIG is BIG ? has now made it’s way to the printers for proofing and printing, hurray . . . after having made a few small changes. It should be printed and delivered in about 2 weeks.

How big is the sky?

I have now posted some images from the book onto Flickr. You can see these images on the Flicker stream How BIG is BIG? There are three double spreads and the front cover.

How BIG is BIG? Double page spread.

Well I have managed to send off a group of images to be printed onto fabric and then sown onto kids tshirts. Most of the designs are taken from my new book How BIG is BIG? in addition to a few additional ideas that I have been playing with.
The artwork is 4 colour and being printed onto a heavy weight 10oz fabric.
The fabric should be in my hot little hands in two to three weeks ready for attaching to clothing.
Below are some of the designs that will be available.

Bird Clock

Elephants and Balloons

Sliced Birds

How BIG is BIG? is a kids book that I have been writing and illustrating for about 3 months now and is finally (I hope) ready to send off to the printers.

The book follows the adventures of three characters: Olivia, Oscar and Orin who discover how size is relative to your perspective. So what I mean by this is how big something appears to you both depends on your size and how far away from something that you are. An example of this would be when you are a small child all adults look big but when you have grown in to an adult some are big and some and small.

How BIG is BIG? follows a story line to explain this graphically to children. There are lots of facts along the way that the kids can learn. The language is pretty simple to make it accessible to as wide a range of children as possible. The book is aimed at children from about the age of 4 through to those aged 14.

Below are a couple of images from the book.

How BIG is BIG? cover

How BIG is BIG? volcano page

They are the front cover of the book (top) and one of the internal pages (bottom) where Olivia (the purple elephant) asks how big volcanoes are. To which Orin (the red elephant) reply’s and there two callout boxes with some interesting facts about volcanoes. The dimension or size of objects that the characters discuss is given both in metric units as well as in ‘elephants’.

The idea of using elephants to provide a unit of measurement is to help kids to get a grasp on how big things are, to make them less abstract in terms of a number of metric units and turn into something that they can relate to, with many children having seen a real elephant in the zoo.