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To celebrate World Book Day, we are interviewing the official illustrator of WBD, Rob Biddulph.

Rob is a multi-award winning children’s author & illustrator. As well as working on his own books, he also illustrates for other authors including Michael Bond and Jeff Brown.

In March 2020, in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Rob started running a series of draw-along YouTube sessions called Draw with Rob. On 21st May he broke the Guinness World Record for the largest ever online art class when 45,611 people tuned in to one of his classes.

Rob’s latest picture book, Dog Gone, came out in paperback on 18th February and his latest activity book, Draw With Rob: Build a Story is published on 4th March.

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Books mentioned in this episode:

Dogger by Shirley Hughes - https://bit.ly/387307z
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - https://bit.ly/3e1WYcg
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - https://bit.ly/3sKj6Mf
Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph - https://bit.ly/2MHsZem
What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry - https://bit.ly/3bckJN5
Meg & Mog by Helen Nicoll & Jan Pienkowski - https://bit.ly/386ciki
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr - https://bit.ly/30851vT
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss - https://bit.ly/309ZwwQ
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf - https://bit.ly/3b9KZHO
Alan's Big, Scary Teeth by Jarvis - https://bit.ly/3qe1EOP
Look Up by Nathan Bryon - https://bit.ly/3e3Rtts

Produced & presented by the team at Mostly Books (www.mostly-books.co.uk)
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Edited by Nick Short (www.instagram.com/alongstoryshorter)