#NewIllustrationoftheDay : charcoal and cutouts by Lauren Child. From Grey, with text by Laura Dockrill. The images are economical and a bit surreal and make ingenious use of the holes through pages. It's about not having to be cheerful all the time to be loved. Walker Picture Books.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . By Ed Vere. Mostly muted primary colours and lovely detailed drawing in various media on brown paper. From his book The Elephant and the Sea, now in paperback. About an elephant who realises his ambition to be a lifeboatman in Cornwall. PuffinBooks

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . Image by Randy Cecil from his picturebook The Spaceman, about a tiny man from another planet who finds happiness on Earth. Appealing use of clear visual storytelling, texture, pattern, colour and a charming dog. Walker Picture Books.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . By Olivier Tallec. Winter scene with friends (squirrel and mushroom) making a snow mushroom. Tallec’s satisfying and decorative compositions convey humour, setting and nature economically. From his A Better Best Friend. Out tomorrow. ⁦Gecko Press⁩

My Sunday Times piece on How Pirates Got Nice @thetimesbooks

#NewIllustrationoftheDay David Tazzyman’s pirates from There’s a Beach in My Pants! by Michelle Harrison (out 6 June) to tie in with my 4thSundayamonth Sunday Times kids’ book feature today: How Pirates Got Nice ⁦Times Books⁩ ⁦Simon & Schuster Children's Books⁩ thetimes.co.uk/article/from-c…

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . ‘One Day WE are going to clean up the ocean for good.’ Heightened colour and relaxed brushwork in a beach scene from Ken Wilson-Max’s just-published picture book Aqua Boy, a follow-up to Astro Girl and Eco Girl. Ken Wilson-Max Otter-Barry Books

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by the late painter Dahlov Ipcar telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/… From The Cat at Night (1969) just republished by ⁦Pushkin Children's Books⁩. Silhouetted scenes alternate with Ipcar’s characteristic vibrant colours revealed by the night-sight of the cat.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . ⁦Joe Todd-Stanton⁩ gives modern Manchester a retro feel as 10-year-old Nate waves goodbye to his friend. From Matt Goodfellow’s novel in verse The Final Year, shortlisted today for the ⁦Branford Boase Award⁩. Matt Goodfellow⁩ ⁦Otter-Barry Books⁩

Am very much looking forward to giving an online talk hosted by British Sporting Art on Eclipse, George Stubbs, and 18th-century racing. 2pm, Thursday 25/4. Register here: bsat.co.uk/exhibitions-an… Transworld Books

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . (Missed off the hashtag.)

NewIllustrationoftheDay. Comedy and exuberance in Sara Ogilvie’s image of a bear testing the logic of The Princess and the Pea. Comic strip retellings subjected to scientific principles in Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales by ⁦Catherine Cawthorne⁩ ⁦⁦Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK⁩

Not sure if we are following the instruction in this moment, but the inspiring event with Lauren Child Theatre Royal Winchester for the Winchester LitFest last Saturday is still making me smile now. A joy to be part of. HarperCollins Children's Books

This gives me more hope than anything in the news. Bravo Boyan Slat. Authors4Oceans