'Where my Wellies Take Me' by Clare & Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Olivia Gill

Georgina met Olivia in the London store around 6 years ago when Olivia was a customer. Over the years they became friends. Last year, before this book was published I had the pleasure of meeting Olivia and seeing her sketch book of all the drawings she had done for this book before they were printed. It was amazing to see and what's also amazing is the way they have captured these illustrations in the final book. Olivia will be at Born Stoke Newington on Saturday 16th March between 11-4pm with a selection of her orginal sketches to look at and to inpire any budding artists. You can also buy the book at the event or reserve it for instore collection now to make sure you get a copy on the day.

The Guradian did a feature on the book and you can see some of the illustrations here

Olivia has kindly shared her story of how the book came about with us below.

~Eva



The creation of 'Where my Wellies Take me'

I met Michael and Clare when we were in Brittany staying with my parents in law. We had seen some posters for a festival of young peoples books in the little port of Doelan where we sometimes visit and so the next day, after a lovely picnic on the cliffs we all went along.   There was a small collection of tents pitched round the harbour with a boat ferrying people across the 30’ span of water from one side to the other. The largest tent had lots of tables with authors and illustrators signing books. It was a lovely atmosphere and quite small scale. Exactly how small became apparent when one of the organizers came up to us quite excited. She had found out that though Vincent had grown up down the road, he now lived in England.