Bob graham author and illustrator worksheet

I try to plan as little as possible, either in my life or my daily work writing and illustrating picture books as I have been doing since the publication of my book Pete and Roland back in

When home on a sick day from work I started penning a few words and pictures to a story happening in our house.

It just seemed a good idea at the time, (and I can’t have been all that sick). It was certainly no career move, or anything like that.

A small parakeet had flown in exhausted over the back fence, our son Pete had put the bird in his hat; he called him Roland and Roland had a short but memorable stay with us.

I had no ending in mind when I started but during the course of my making the pictures ….Roland flew out the window.

Well, of course there was my ending!

I took the small book that I made to the publisher William Collins, only because it was close to the bus stop on my way home from work, (you could do that sort of thing back then).

To my great surprise they love