G Is For Giraffe: Some New Illustrations

I’ve been working on a set of illustrations for a children’s ABC book. It’s consists simply of 26 zoo animals on brightly coloured backgrounds with lots of texture. It’s aimed at parents/grandparents who might be reading to their chiselers.

I’m still deciding what to do with this book, but as an experiment I’m thinking of trying one (or more) of the following:

• Publish it electronically for Kindle reader, pretty much as it is
• Have it made into an some sort of Flash card app
• Have it made into an app with sounds

Option A is something I can definitely do myself, options B and C would require some collaboration – if anyone out there is interested or would like to provide some guidance …

Anyhoo here’s a couple of the animals

The idea of publishing electronically came from talking to Sarah (thanks!) last weekend at the Drogheda Photowalk and it got me thinking about some of the work I have sitting around idle (which included some of these ABC illustrations).

I also wanted to say thanks to Tara on the Graphic Design blog who has helped me with some leads and links for my last children’s picture book – Little Bee Lost which I’m still hoping to get published the “old fashioned” way. If there are any publishers reading …