STOP PRESS
On Saturday 18th Oct 2025 I will be talking about graphic novels at Lancaster Litfest October weekend.
Huntly Festival of Illustration
The Festival of Illustration in Huntly, Aberdeenshire took place over two weeks in August and September 2024. This was the culmination of more than a year’s work for myself and a small team of other volunteers, and was generously funded by a number of local and national funders. A full report about the festival can be downloaded here or on the festival website (above) where there are details of some of the festival books that are still available from Orb’s Community Bookshop in Huntly.
The festival included two exhibitions held at a new local venue in the town square, No 30.
One was focussed on the life and writing of local man George MacDonald and showcased 48 of the international illustrators who have brought his children’s books to life over the last two centuries.
The other exhibition displayed the work of illustrators working in Scotland today.
There were talks and workshops by leading illustrators, and all the local primary and secondary schools brought groups of children to the events or took part in other ways.
The event was a huge success as can be seen in the festival report, and was the first time that many people had considered illustration as an artform in its own right.
Helen with illustrators Ross Collins www.rosscollins.net
and Kate Lieper www.kateleiper.co.uk
who both took part in the festival
Peter in Peril selected for publication by the German Federal Agency for Political Education
In 2022 the German edition of Peter in Peril was selected for publication as a special paperback edition, by the German Federal Agency for Political Education
(Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/Die bpb)
Adenaueralle 86, 53113 Bonn, Germany. 2022
The bpb is a federal public authority providing citizenship education and information on political issues for all people in Germany.
One of the bpb’s key activities is the provision of information on the major issues of our times. Large amounts of information are made available on their website and in a wide variety of print publications. The range of topics includes European integration, participation in politics and in society, issues relating to the economy and the financial markets, migration, and social change, as well as historical issues and democracy in general.
Another one of their key activities is the ongoing creation of new projects and the development of new methods to meet the special informational and educational needs of people with different learning abilities and people from different age groups and different walks of life.
(Information taken from www.bpb.de)
