Creators
Jo Hodgkinson studied Illustration at the University of Wolverhampton. She won first prize in the Emerging Talent category of Cheltenham Illustration Awards celebrating narrative illustration. She loves to travel and is currently living in Istanbul and teaching Art at Istanbul International Community School, but visits the UK regularly for book festivals and events. She will be come back to the UK to live in 2012. Her new picture book, MY FRIEND, NIGEL, will be published in autumn 2012.
Reviews
This rollicking and rhythmical tale is a heart-warming treat.
Red House Children's Book Award
Rhyming text makes this colourful, jaunty tale a pleasure to read aloud.
Irish Times
All you can wish for are encores galore from Hodgkinson. Brava!
The School Librarian
It looks to me as though Jo Hodgkinson is an author/illustrator to watch.
Armadillo Magazine
Fast, rhythmic text and the important message of judging people by their talent, not their size.
Nursery World
Delightful rhyming couplets have a rhythm of their own. Children will love this humourously illustrated story.
EYE
Hodgkinson’s light verse bounces along, and her illustrations are a riot of colour . . . A breezy nudge for the nascent little music maker.
Kirkus Reviews
Rhyming text makes this colourful, jaunty tale a pleasure to read aloud.
Irish Times
