May 2012
1 post
The BOOKhut Big 6......I mean 5! - with Steven...
My memory is but a memory!
I am going through a spate of forgetfulness. I’m forgetting the most fundamental things at the……….sorry - what was I saying?
Oh yes, that’s right I’m really quite forgetful at the moment. I caused a a complete hullabaloo in the library (SHHHHH!!) on Saturday. I strolled in without either of my legs in anything resembling a trouser....
April 2012
1 post
The Easter BOOKhut Big 6! - with another award...
(Illustration by Jim Paillot)
This week we have a real Easter treat in the bearded form of the BOOKtastic Philip Ardagh! It’s a real BOOKhut exclusive and came about by chance. Let me explain…
Recently my luck has changed for the better. Consider the following:
I found 17 pence in loose change down the back of my friend’s sofa (- though technically, that could be seen as...
March 2012
4 posts
The BOOKhut Big 6! - with award winning 'Tom...
This is our 50th post and Spring is in the air!
- Which makes a change from great wafting clouds of polution OR that too familiar smell coming from the drains outside my Nan’s house. Nana blames her neighbour - Smelly Bob.
To be fair, I blame Smelly Bob too. Truly he is the most pungeant man I have ever encountered. If you get too close to him your skin starts peeling! My third best...
The BOOKhut Big 6! - with Tom McLaughlin!!!!!!!
I have just heard from the Queen herself how much she is enjoying ‘The BOOKhut Big 6’ and she’s invited me to Buckingham Palace to help her do the grouting in 17 of the 43 bathrooms within her establishment.
You would have thought that being the Queen, and such like, that she would get someone in to do it for her. But recently she’s been doing this course on the Open...
February 2012
3 posts
The BOOKhut Big 6! - with award winning author...
Every now and then an author comes along and is just so funtubulistic - in every dimension - that I feel it ‘oh so very’ important that their stories be gobbled whole by the entire nation! Janet Foxley (award winning creator of BOOKhut favourite - ‘Muncle Trogg’ and now also ‘Muncle Trogg and the Flying Donkey’ - both published by Chicken House) is such an...
A masterclass in writing with Dr Judith Serious.
Bored this half-term?
Well why don’t you decorate my bathroom! I’ll pay you in biscuits and supply you with as much tea as you can carry in a saucepan.
Wait! I was joking! (- I wasn’t. Even if you did a few tiles I would be grateful! Though I was lying about the biscuits…….I have barely a clutch of pink wafers to my name.)
This week saw me attending a writing...
January 2012
11 posts
BOOKhut presents.......The Worlds Worst - starring...
Consider being ‘The Worlds Worst’ at something. It doesn’t exactly inspire does it?
Here is a list of some of my BOOKhut chums who were always destined for EPIC failure:
Rick the hedgehog got very few bookings as a balloon sculpturer. I can’t think why….he’s such a nice creature. So he left that business venture and became a lollipop man. Hedgehogs and roads...
Vern and Lettuce are in 'da house! (or 'hut' - to...
Is your best friend a rabbit? If the answer is ‘No’ please move on to the next question.
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Hello - thought I might find you here.
Alright then, is your best friend a sheep? If the answer is ‘Yes’ then please proceed to the nearest hospital where a doctor will look after you and a nurse will brush your hair and tell you everything is going to be fine....
'Do igloos have loos?' - I'm not sure, but keep...
Life is one big question.
Actually, perhaps life is several questions.
Oh, let’s face it - life is FULL of questions. Here are some I would like answerred:
Where is my hat?
Who had the biggest pants - King Henry VIII or Queen Victoria? (I think hers were HUGE towards the end of her life.)
What flavours does a rainbow come in?
Are you sure you haven’t seen my hat?
Where is...
One Wonderful Website by illustrator and author... →
Join the hoardes of BOOKhutters visiting Sarah McIntyre’s website. It jam packed with lots of fun activities, pictures and things to keep you busy! Bookmark it and add it to your favourites as you will be guaranteed to visit again and again and again!
The BOOKhut Big 6! - with Sarah McIntyre!!!!!!!
Sarah McIntyre is one of the bravest illustrators I know.
Look at this picture. She has a finger placed on Morris the Mankiest Monster’s bogey! (Cue the fainting Victorian lady)
It’s alright. No need to panic. Get the Victorian lady some smelling salts and a sponge cake. Sarah is only touching a picture of his bogey.
Sarah is an illustrator, author and creative wonder and I...
Silly poems for Brilliant BOOKhutters! By Anderson...
I have spent literally moments on writing the following poems for you. (No - not YOU Finnegan Gimble! You can stand in the corner. And turn around - we are offended by your beard and all that is trapped in it!)
As such, I have changed my name temporarily to Anderson A. Anderson. Don’t ask me why! (I said DON’T ask me why, Finnegan. And you can turn around again!)
My first offering...
Stop the Press and Shabba me Whiskers: Andy...
During the summer of 1642 (or maybe it was half past three?) it was my great fortune to meet the creative whirlwind known to some as Andy Stanton, but to others simply, Andy Stanton. Here are the things I deduced:
What a nice man he is! (my mum and her parrot, Cindy, agreed)
He is taller than hobbits but a bit smaller than a giant hobbit.
He knows a few thousand facts about sharks -...
WARNING: Eating a fairytale princess can give you...
Genghis the Troll invited me to dinner under his bridge. Well, I couldn’t say no - he’s much bigger than me and he did have me in a head-lock at the time!
So I went along with a bottle of Goo de la Nez ’76 (a good vintage for snot wine) and half a maggot sandwich (-well, I got a bit hungry on the way -) and nervously rang the clanger on his drawbridge door.
...
Start the New Year with a smile on your...
Happy New Year BOOKhutters - let’s start as we mean to carry on shall we?
My New Years resolutions include:
To bungee jump off a shoe box (- I don’t like heights so something flat would be ideal really.)
To eat at least two of my five-a-day (- I would argue that chocolate covered raisins are in actual fact one of your five-a-day, however I’m not tempted by chocolate covered...
December 2011
1 post
The sights, scribbles.......and smells (!) of...
As I was saying to Ebenezer Scrooge the other day, I love Christmas.
I once applied to be Chief Elf Toy Tester for the big man himself but my height did me no favours with regards to securing the position. And they made fun of my hat - it wasn’t pointy enough.
However, what I was able to do was to leave Santa my mobile phone number and now, every year, he calls me up to ask what books I...
November 2011
9 posts
School for Hairy Elephant types!!!!!!
Well buckle me parsnips! I’ve just been doing some supply teaching at the Mammoth Academy - which is no mean feat! I had to travel back in time to the ICE AGE and the agency didn’t even offer to pay my time travel expenses! That’s by the by as rather than recount my wonderful experience there (and I don’t just mean the free coffee in the staff room) I want you to pick up...
Look up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?...
Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes. It just so happens that the shape and size of this superhero is that of a baby. The creative cogs of two upstanding 10 year old cartoonists and writers - George Beard (in real life he has no face fuzz!) and Harold Hutchins - clicked, clunked, thinked and thunked until they came up with this nappy wearing wonder!
This book/graphic novel is cool because...
I need a bigger GIANT. This one is TOO small!
Look at him. Seems happy enough doesn’t he. But when I tell you what I’m going to tell you, you will be SHOCKED to the very lining of your underpants!
For this is MUNCLE TROGG - a giant! I can tell you are impressed. But now comes the incredibly silly bit: he is very small! He’s only the size of us human beings - which for a giant defies the very nature of the word. And because...
The 'Top Ten Fart Noises' in honor of Yuck!
We all know that FARTS are good.
Here are the facts:
If we didn’t fart we would blow up like zepplins and float around like ghastly halloween balloons.
And then would come the inevitable ‘POP’ and least we forget the smell of school canteen cabbage and farm yard unpleasantness-nesses!
Quite frankly I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. (Second thoughts: Perhaps I...
September 2011
2 posts
I'm stuffed! I simply couldn't eat another...
Palabsicomb Bab - the renowned chef and television all-rounder invited me over to his four storey caravan/indoor amusment park to show off the latest copy of his book ‘11 things to sing to sharks’.
I - being extremely greedy having finished my seventh dinner that day only twenty two minutes before - gladly accepted his offer and bought him a gold 18 carat carrot as a thank you.
...
August 2011
19 posts
I've been out and about this week in pursuit of a...
Do you know what I suddenly thought the other day? (- well done to all you mind readers who already know…. - )
I thought to myself “Where on Earth can I park my giraffe without getting a ticket? It’s so restricting these days! Particularly in London.”
No - I didn’t think that. ( - Ha-ha, to you sham mind-readers and I’ll have my 50 pence back please!)
I...
First rule of BOOKhut No-Prize: There is no Prize!...
When I was 456, or I could have been 7 - then again I could have been neither of these ages and a few more besides - I used to enter competitions all the time.
Here is a selction of the competitions I entered and the prizes I won:
I won the ‘Paint a moustache on a Starfish’ competition and got a years supply of sand.
I came third in ‘The Most Ridiculus Trousers’...
Afternoon tea in the BOOKhut with me!!!!
Hello - just wipe your feet before you read on. Infact take your shoes off as the carpets in my imaginarium are new - and worse, they are cream which as you know shows up the dirt like a burglar at a house warming!
Thank you for coming - mwah, mwah, hugs! (I see you didn’t bring anything with you - how cheap. I will be extra stringent with the size of the slice of cake I give you!)...
What's Black and White and Read all over?........
Ah hello! Fancy seeing you here!
Today is a great day for reading.
In fact, any day is a great day for reading. Come and join me for a special virtual book supper in ……oooh about 10 minutes.
See you then,
Des
“Stupid sheep! We’ve missed our cue to sing!” - from ‘Vern and Lettuce’ by Sarah McIntyre
““What strangery is this?” Whispered Polly. Her hair standing on end...”
– Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire - ANDY STANTON
