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Live Auction p5 Axel Scheffler p6 Laurence Anholt p7 Ben Cort p8 Alison Jay p9 Mini Grey p10 David Melling p11 Kristina Stephenson p12 Sarah McIntyre p13 Korky Paul p14 Chris Riddell p15 Steven Lenton p16 Michael Foreman p17 Nick Sharratt p18 Liz Pichon p19 Tony Ross

Online Auction p20 Alborozo p21 Claire Alexander p22 Ian Beck p23 Rob Biddulph p24 Fred Blunt p25 Martin Chatterton p26 Ross Collins

Online Auction p27 Helen Craig p28 Benji Davies p29 Sheena Dempsey p30 Jenni Desmond p31 Thomas Docherty p32 Elys Dolan p33 Catalina Echeverri p34 Tatyana Feeney p35 Tor Freeman p36 Katie May Green p37 Chris Haughton p38 Sophy Henn p39 Daisy Hirst p40 Petr Horacek p41 Yasmeen Ismail p42 Robin Jarvis p43 Chris Judge p44 Neal Layton p45 Gill Lewis p46 Jamie Littler p47 Jo Lodge p48 David Mackintosh p49 Ben Mantle p50 Layn Marlow

Online Auction p51 James Mayhew p52 Katherine McEwen p53 Dave McKeen p54 Angie Morgan p55 Chris Mould p56 Gary Northfield p57 Ella Okstad p58 Guy Parker-Rees p59 Garry Parsons p60 Alex Paterson p61 Levi Pinfold p62 Ali Pye p63 Philip Reeve p64 Angie Sage p65 Emily MacKenzie p66 Viv Schwarz p67 Adam Stower p68 Alica Tait p69 David Tazzyman p70 Britta Teckentrup p71 Gillian Tyler p72 Sarah Warburton p73 Jim Field p74 Joel Stewart

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Red Chair Art

Live Auction The Guildhall, Bath, BA1 5AW Thursday, 1st October Drinks Reception at 7pm Auction at 8pm Is your wall in need of a Gruffalo? Do you long to have some Aliens in Underpants in your office? Is the school library lacking an illustration by new Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell?

On 1 October we’re auctioning 15 specially commissioned one-off pieces – depicting famous characters sitting in the Bath Children’s Literature Festival big red storytelling chair. The auction includes work from: Axel Scheffler, Chris Riddell, Ben Cort, Nick Sharratt, Korky Paul, Liz Pichon, Steven Lenton, Kristina Stephenson, David Melling, Sarah McIntyre, Mini Grey, Laurence Anholt, Michael Foreman, Alison Jay, and David Roberts.

To view them before the night pop into the Framing Workshop in Walcot Street or wander along to the Sofa.com in the Corridor Arcade. If you would like to discuss placing a bid remotely for one of the 15 pieces to be auctioned on the night, please contact rosie.fearon@bathfestivals.org.uk.

Over 50 additional pieces of original art and limited edition prints will be auctioned online. The link to the online auction will go live on the night, you will then have over a week to place bids on your favourite pieces.

Details at: http://bathfestivals.org.uk/childrens-literature

The event is kindly supported by Children’s Book Illustrations and The Framing Workshop.

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Axel Scheffler Original Art. The Gruffalo Axel Scheffler is the best-selling, award-winning illustrator of many of the world’s favourite picture books. Perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Julia Donaldson including the modern classic The Gruffalo, which has sold over five million copies worldwide and been translated into 50 languages.

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Laurence Anholt Original Art. Ink and watercolour on ‘Fabriano 100% cotton watercolour paper’

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The illustration is based on characters from Camille and the Sunflowers a story about Vincent Van Gogh and Camille Roulin, who was the son of the famous postmaster in Arles. Laurence Anholt is an author/illustrator of more than 200 children’s books, published in over 40 languages and notable for their upbeat and humorous approach to important issues. Laurence’s first Young Adult novel The Hypnotist will be published by Random House Penguin in October 2016.

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Ben Cort Original Art Ben Cort is the illustrator of the multi award winning book Aliens Love Underpants, which along with the other titles in the Underpants series has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. He has illustrated numerous other picture books including Octopus’s Garden by Ringo Star and The Scottish Children’s Book Award winner Jumblebum by Chae Strathie.

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Alison Jay Original Art Alison Jay is the acclaimed illustrator of many picture books, including The Cloud Spinner, written by Michael Catchpool, and A Gift for Mama, by Linda Ravin Lodding.

Alison’s signature style is created using alkyd paint on thick cartridge paper, with a crackle varnish, giving an aged effect.

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Mini Grey Original Art. Quink, ink, liquid watercolours and coloured pencil on heavyweight cartridge paper.

The picture features Hermelin the Detective mouse reading The Scarlet Claw in the red chair.

Mini Grey’s books include Biscuit Bear (winner of the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award), Traction Man is Here (winner of the Boston Horn Book Award and shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal) and The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon.

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David Melling Original Art. Hugless Douglas David Melling became a freelance illustrator in 1986 drawing for magazines and advertising agencies. In 1993 he illustrated his first children’s book. He first wrote and illustrated his own picture book The Kiss That Missed, in 2002, which was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway award. To date he has illustrated over 60 books.

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Kristina Stephenson Original Art Kristina Stephenson is a writer and illustrator of children’s books, including Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and Molly Maybe’s Monsters. She works predominantly in the fields of Children’s Publishing and Children’s Television.

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Sarah McIntyre Original Art. India ink and watercolour on Saunders Waterford watercolour paper.

EEP! EEP! EEP! It’s those pesky Sea Monkeys, from Oliver and the Seawigs, Sarah’s book with Philip Reeve! But Iris the mermaid loves a good book and she’s not going to let this shrieking rabble run away with her entire reading collection. (Extra points for spotting the tiny rambling isles and Colin the crab).

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Korky Paul Original Art. Schminke watercolours and Kandahar black ink on Sanders Waterford CP/MOT 90 gsm paper.

Winnie loves reading and especially to Wilbur, and what could be more comfortable than seated in The Bath Festival Red Chair bolted on to her broomstick. She is seen in the illustration flying over the dreaming Spires of Oxford with chilled pumpkin juice in hand reading to a very nervous Wilbur.

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Chris Riddell Original Art Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children’s Laureate, is an accomplished writer and illustrator. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001 and 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children’s Book Award 2013.

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Steven Lenton Original Art. Created with coloured pencil on textured cartridge paper.

Bath-based illustrator Steven Lenton is the illustrator of the best-selling Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam series which was both the Waterstones picture book of the month and The Times Children’s Book of the Week. He is also the illustrator for Frank Cottrell Boyce’s fiction and Orchard’s Fairytale Frankie picture book series.

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Michael Foreman Original Art. The artwork is painted in watercolour on Langton watercolour paper.

Michael Foreman is one of the best-known and most prolific writers and illustrators of children’s books. He has collaborated with many great authors including Michael Morpurgo and Terry Jones. He also writes and illustrates his own books, including War Boy and War Game - winners of the Kate Greenaway Award and Smarties Book Prize respectively.

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Nick Sharratt Limited Edition Print 1/1 Nick Sharratt is a British illustrator and author of children’s books, and was chosen to be the Official Illustrator for World Book Day 2006. Sharratt has illustrated around 200 books, including over 40 books by award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson, among them The Lottie Project, Little Darlings and The Story of Tracy Beaker 17

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Liz Pichon Original Art

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Liz Pichon is the author of the best-selling Tom Gates series, which has sold 1,000,000 books in the UK and been translated into 36 languages. The first book in the series won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, The Red House Book Award Best Book for Young Readers and the Waterstoneยนs Best Fiction for 5-12 year olds Prize. The fourth book in the series won the Blue Peter Award for Best Story.

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Tony Ross Original Art. Bockingford 190lb paper, black waterproof ink and rowneys red acrylic ink.

“I do not enjoy drawing chairs really, all those legs and spindles, usually not nearly as successful as Van Goghs Effort, so the word ‘RED’ was immediately more appealing. My first few ideas were all a bit predictable, and I was in a sort of mood to reject teddy bears, I guessed there would be enough of them, RED, RED, RED... and a bullfighters cape popped up. I can’t remember there being much in the world of childrens books about bullfighting, So it appealed me.“

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Alborozo Original Art. Watercolour and pencil on Zerkal extra smooth paper.

The characters are Zot, the little boy and the significant balloon from the The Colour Thief (Bloomsbury). The story revolves around Zot, who comes to earth to steal all the colour. The last of which is the orange of the boys balloon. Alborozo is a cartoonist and illustrator, his work includes The Colour Thief, The Acrobat and Goodnight Firefly.

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Claire Alexander Original Art. Watercolours and charcoal on watercolour paper.

The characters are from Claire’s latest book Monkey and the Little One (Egmont).

Monkey lives a quiet life, all alone in the jungle, until a visitor arrives who makes himself right at home. But can Monkey and the Little One get along?

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Ian Beck Original Art Ian Beck is a children’s illustrator and author. In addition to his numerous children’s books, he is also known for his cover illustration on Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. He has sold more than a million copies of his books worldwide.

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Rob Biddulph Signed Limited Edition Print 1/1 The piece features Penguins Blue, Flo and Jeff, Clive the polar bear and Wilbur the seal from Blown Away. Oh, and a cheeky monkey who has mysteriously found himself in the antarctic. They are all enjoying a lovely book about a crocodile in a bath, except for Wilbur who is having a bit of kite trouble. Again. Rob Biddulph is a children’s author and illustrator. His first picture book Blown Away won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2015.

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Fred Blunt Signed Limited Edition Print 1/1 The picture features Captain Falsebeard, from Fred’s debut picture book for Pufffin, Captain Falsebeard, in a very fishy tale. Fred Blunt has worked on all manner of projects, including editorial, advertising and designing animations for the BBC. He now works mostly in children’s books.

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Martin Chatterton Original Art. Pencils and SpeedDry magic colour inks on 300 g/m cold-pressed watercolour paper.

“The drawing was really just a football in-joke between myself and John (who requested the piece), essentially that: I’m an Evertonian (a Blue) so the idea of doing anything red is anathema. I also wanted to introduce a little Gothic sour into all that general Red Chair sweetness.”

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Ross Collins Original Art. Charcoal and concentrated watercolours on watercolour paper.

The piece features the bear and mouse characters from Ross Collins new picture book There’s a Bear on My Chair. It’s about a poor mouse who, no matter how hard he tries, fails to shift a gleeful polar bear from his favourite chair.

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Helen Craig Original Art Helen Craig has illustrated more than sixty books for children. She is best known for creating the Angelina Ballerina series of children’s books with writer Katharine Holabird.

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Benji Davies Original Art. Brush pens and ink on cartridge paper.

A meeting of characters from two of my books. Grandad (Grandad’s Island) reads Noi (The Storm Whale) a story under the light of the moon, sitting in the big red chair, whilst the animals gather to listen.

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Sheena Dempsey Original Art. Pencil, Geo College pigment liners, colouring pencil and Lukas and Schmincke watercolours on Fabriano Artistico watercolour paper.

The piece includes characters from published and unpublished books. There are characters from Bye-Bye Baby Brother!, Bruno and Titch, The Powers (a fiction series by Kevin Stevens) and After Happily Ever After - Cinderella’s Big Day (by Katie Cotton). Sheena decided to make the red chair into a bath and added as much fun and humour as possible.

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Jenni Desmond Original Art. Mixed media (pencil, pencil crayon, watercolour, acrylic) on 200gsm heavyweight cartridge paper.

This red chair features Slodge, who is the main character from The First Slodge. Here he is having a cosy time enjoying some of his books whilst munching on his biscuits and fruit – one of his favourite pastimes. Jenni Desmond’s first picture book Red Cat Blue Cat won the 2013 Cambridgeshire Read It Again Award. She was the 2014 illustrator for the National Portrait Gallery 30 Family Trail, and has exhibited her work widely including in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

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Thomas Docherty Original Art. Acrylic ink and watercolour on watercolour paper.

Eliza Brown reads to The Snatchabook – from Helen and Thomas Docherty’s award winning book of the same name. Thomas writes and illustrates his own books as well as working with authors, such as his wife Helen and bestselling author Jenny Colgan.

His book Little Boat was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2009.

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Elys Dolan Original Art. Pen, ink and watercolour on watercolour paper.

The picture features the spaceship crew from Elys Dolan’s book Nuts in Space.

Commander Moose is sat in his big red chair about to read everyone a story about himself because he’s a bit like that whilst Beaver the Engineer savagely devours another book, Weasels, which is frankly delicious.

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Catalina Echeverri Signed Limited Edition Print. Created using Photoshop and a Graphic Tablet.

The piece features Amelia and Pierre, the two main characters from There’s a Dinosaur in my Bathtub. In particular this illustration draws inspiration from one of the instances in the book were Pierre (Amelia’s French Dinosaur Friend) takes her to the moon to have galactic chocolate and marshmallow stars.

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Tatyana Feeney Limited Edition Print. Created using monoprinting and watercolour.

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The picture shows Mummy Bunny reading to Small Bunny (Characters from Small Bunny’s Blue Blanket). The idea was to show a parent and child having time to read together. Tatyana Feeney is a children’s author and illustrator. She has been nominated for numerous awards and was the winner of the Rotherham Children’s Book Award in the Picture Book Category in 2014.

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Tor Freeman Signed Limited Editon Print 1/1. Digital artwork on Somerset Enhanced inkjet paper.

The picture features some jolly cats having a good laugh at a cat comic, which is probably the best kind of comic! Tor Freeman has been illustrating children’s books since 1999. Her books have been published by Macmillan, Brubaker, Ford & Friends and Walker Books among others.

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Katie May Green Signed Limited Edition Print 1/1. Mixed media with digital colour, printed onto Canson paper.

Introducing Lila and Vila De Villechild, the twins from the award-winning picturebook Seen and Not Heard (Walker Books, 2014). The book is set in mysterious Shiverhawk Hall, where children in portraits find mischief galore! The De Villechild twins really are perfect angels . . . aren’t they . . . ?

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Chris Haughton Limited Edition Print 1/1 . Created digitally and with pencil on paper.

Chris Haughton’s first book A BIT LOST has been translated into 20 languages and has won awards in 7 countries including the Dutch Picture Book of the Year. OH NO GEORGE! came out in 2012 and won the Junior Magazine Picturebook of the year award. His third book SHH! We have a plan came out in March 2014 and won the 2014 AOI award for children’s books.

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Sophy Henn Signed Limited Edition Print 1/1. Drawn using a soft pencil and photocopy paper. Then, using a light box and more paper, Sophy drew each element of the illustration individually.

She scanned them in, coloured them and moved them around on her iMac! The picture was printed at a fine art printers using giclee printers on archival paper.

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The picture features little Pom Pom (from Pom Pom gets the Grumps and Pom Pom the Champion) on his big red chair, engrossed in a good book, and ready for the festival!

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Daisy Hirst Signed Limited Edition Print 1/5. Five-colour acrylic screenprint on 220gsm off-white cartridge paper.

The monkey family who use the red chair for reading, writing and hanging out are new characters without a book of their own to live in – but Daisy would love to make a monkey picturebook sometime soon. Daisy Hirst’s first book, The Girl with the Parrot on her Head, was published this year, her second book ALPHONSE, THAT IS NOT OK TO DO! will be published in 2016.

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Petr Horacek Original Art. Collage with watercolours, acrylics, wax crayons, pencil and colour pencils.

The main character in the picture, Little Mouse, has appeared in three of Petr’s books A New House for Mouse (picture book of the year in Holland 2006), The Mouse Who Ate the Moon and the most recent book The Mouse Who Reached the Sky. 40

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Yasmeen Ismail Limited Edition Print 1/1 Yasmeen Ismail is an award-winning author, illustrator and animator. Yasmeen’s fun and bright illustrations can be found in her beautiful picture books Time for Bed Fred, Inside, Outside, Upside Down and her latest creation Specs for Rex as well as well as animation, advertising and more.

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Robin Jarvis Limited Edition Print

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Robin Jarvis is an award-winning writer and illustrator. He has written numerous popular titles including the acclaimed Deptford Mice trilogy and the Whitby Witches.

Shortlisted in the past for the Carnegie Prize and Smarties Award, Robin has won the Lancashire Libraries Children’s Book of the Year Award twice and has a cult following among children.

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Chris Judge Limited Edition Print The Beast is happiest when he is sitting comfortably in his favourite giant red chair, with a copy of his favourite book by his favourite author and the kettle on the boil to make a piping hot cup of tea. All that is missing is a very large slice of cake to make it a perfect afternoon.

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Neal Layton Original Art. Pencil, ink, watercolour and collage on Sanders Waterford paper.

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The illustration shows Emily Brown and Stanley rabbit from the Emily Brown series of books, written by Cressida Cowell and published by Hodder Childrens books. Neal Layton is an illustrator and writer. His books Oscar and Arabella and Bartholomew and the Bug have both won the Bronze Nestle Smarties Book. In 2006 he won the prestigious Gold award for That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown.

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Gill Lewis Original Art. Watercolour and printing paper.

The artwork is based on the book Sky Hawk. The fledgling ospreys are reading Moby Dick, their dream catch of the day, in the red chair up a tree.

Gill Lewis is the author of the critically acclaimed Wild Wings and One White Dolphin, both winners of the Green Earth Book Award.

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Jamie Littler Original Art Jamie Littler is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and comic artist. He has won a High Commendation Award at the Macmillan Children’s Book Awards for Ghosts in the Snow and is the creator of the comic series Cogg and Sprokit, which is serialised in the Phoenix. He has worked on high-profile projects including The Famous Five.

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Jo Lodge Limited Edition Print Jo Lodge is an illustrator and a paper engineer. Her appealing, boldly coloured characters have appeared in a huge range of titles but she is perhaps best known for her Mr Croc character (Hodder) which has sold over a million copies worldwide.

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David Mackintosh Original Art. Graphite, coloured pencil, inkjet print, bond paper, kraftpaper, origami paper, cartridge paper.

MuMu (from What’s Up MuMu?)is having a bad day and friend Lox tries everything to change things but MuMu is very stubborn. Lox goes about constructing situations to cheer her up. MuMu’s two dimensional stubborness is likened in the picture to flat-pack furniture.

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Ben Mantle Limited Edition Print. Giclee print created using watercolour and digital.

Ben Mantle studied animation at Surrey Institute of Art and Design. He joined the crew working on Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride in 2005. Since 2008, Ben has been working as a Children’s Book Illustrator and he also produces screen prints and digital artwork to exhibit. He illustrated Callum’s Incredible Construction Kit which won the Bishop’s Stortford Picture Book prize 2013.

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Layn Marlow Original Art. Watercolour inks and paints, coloured pencils, acrylic paint, paper and fabric collage on Arches watercolour paper (185 gsm).

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The big red chair sits on a small ice floe, which seemed the most appropriate location to combine characters from two of Layn’s recent picture books: the girl and the snowman from You Make Me Smile (OUP 2013) and the seafaring boy and his dog from I’ll Catch You If You Fall (Written by Mark Sperring, OUP 2015).

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James Mayhew Original Art. Created with pen and ink with watercolour on holt press watercolour paper The picture shows Katie admiring a “masterpiece” of a red chair in a painting, surrounded by books waiting to be read. Who wouldn’t want to climb inside?

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Katherine McEwen Original Art. Mixed media, namely paper collage, watercolour, felt tip pens, chalk pastel and coloured pencil.

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The character on the red chair is the bear from Bear Hug (Templar, 2014). The whole book was illustrated in paper collage. The book is set in woodland and Katherine liked the idea of depicting the Red Chair in the same environment. The bear is reading Bear Hug and has cup of tea, for extra comfort!

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Dave McKean Original Art. Ink and coloured pencil on cartridge paper.

Dave McKean has written a multi-media show with sax player Iain Ballamy and poet Matthew Sweeney for the Manchester Jazz and Literature Festivals called An Ape’s Progress. Inspired by Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, it’s an immigrant’s tale, set in Manchester, starring an ex Chinese circus monkey.

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Chris Mould Original Art. Pen and ink with acrylic on cartridge paper.

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“The character depicted is Captain Beastlie from the book Captain Beastlies Birthday Party. He has a red chair in the book so a portrait of him seated seemed a good idea for the auction. He’s a fun and grubby old pirate so i’d hope he has appeal for any art buying Buccaneers out there.“ Winner of the Nottingham Children’s Book Award, Chris Mould currently has over 20 books in print between the U.S. and the U.K., where he lives. His books include The Wooden Mile and The Icy Hand.

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Angie Morgan Limited Edition Print. Drawn in pencil and scanned in Photoshop with colour and texture added using watercolour, pastel and a variety of real things either photographed or scanned. The fabric of the red chair is taken from a spotted headscarf which started out as blue and white but was altered in Photoshop.

The characters are from Shouty Arthur, and Sedric and the Great Pig Rescue (Egmont) and Enormouse and Daisy’s Big Dig (Frances Lincoln).

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Gary Northfield Original Art. A pen and ink drawing, using waterproof ink, coloured with pigmented artist watercolour on acid-free cold pressed watercolour paper.

Julius Zebra is play-fighting his gladiator chum, Cornelius the warthog. Julius and Cornelius are two gladiators starring in the book, Julius Zebra: Rumble With The Romans (Walker Books 2015).

Gary has been writing and drawing comics and books for 13 years, including strips for the Beano, The Dandy, The Phoenix and National Geographic Kids. Julius Zebra: Rumble With 56 The Romans is his first illustrated novel.

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Ella Okstad Signed Limited Edition Print. Pencil, ink, tracing paper and Photoshop.

Ava sits comfortably in the Red Chair reading about invisible cats while Squishy McFluff himself is sitting on top looking down with great interest. Characters from the Squishy McFluff series by Pip Jones (Faber&Faber). Ella is a Norwegian illustrator born in Trondheim.Since graduating from the Kent Institute of Art and Design (UK) in 2000 she has illustrated a number of children`s books in Norway, UK and soon in the US.

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Guy Parker-Rees Original Art

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Guy Parker-Rees’ exuberant and energetic illustrations have made him a household name and one of today’s bestselling children’s illustrators. His books include: Giraffes Can’t Dance, that has sold in excess of 1.5 million copies; Spookyrumpus, winner of the Sheffield, Dundee and Portsmouth book awards; and the highly acclaimed and muchloved Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus.

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Garry Parsons Original Art The characters in the red chair are from various pictures books . . . The pirate is from Are You the Pirate Captain? by Garry Parsons and Gareth P. Jones, the alien is Uncle Phil from Krong! and the duck and dog (that’s Walter Woof who rides a moped) are both from Dr Hoof by Diana Kimpton, and the rocket blasts from “The Dinosaur That Pooped A Planet”.

The yellow bucket belongs to Billy from “Billy’s Bucket” by Kes Gray.

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Alex Paterson Original Art. On Saunders Waterford Paper with black Windsor and Newton ink and Windsor and Newton Watercolours to colour.

Alex Paterson is a childrens illustrator from the UK. He has illustrated thirty books for Orion, Egmont, Random House, Harper Collins, OUP, Orchard, Wayland, Michael O Mara and TickTock publishing. Alex’s work has been exhibited in the Cartoon Museum in London.

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Levi Pinfold Original Art Levi Pinfold’s debut picture book The Django was shortlisted for the English 4-11 Best Children’s Illustrated Book Award in 2011. He won the Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award the same year. Levi’s second book Black Dog has won The Coventry Inspiration Award and the highly prized Kate Greenaway Medal 2013. He’s also the Children’s Book Winner, AOI Illustration Awards.

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Ali Pye Signed Limited Edition Print. Created using mixed media (charcoal, paint, ink, graphite pencil) and digital.

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Having always loved foxes, Ali has drawn a family of them snuggled up in the Red Chair, having read Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl together. The cover of the book is the one that she remembers from her childhood. It was one of her favourite stories back then and more recently was the first book to get her younger son excited about reading!

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Philip Reeve Original Art Philip Reeve is an award-winning writer and illustrator. He won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize with his Mortal Engines series, as well as the Nestlé Book Prize - Gold Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. He has been short-listed for the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award and the WH Smith People’s Choice Awards.

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Angie Sage Original Art. Marker pens on Bristol Board.

The characters are from a large, but close-knit monster family who enjoy reading quietly in the evenings, despite the disapproval of their monster neighbours who prefer a bit of noise. Shown in the picture is Brian the Dad and the youngest child Boo. 64

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Emily MacKenzie Original Art Emily Mackenzie is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Working mainly with ink, digital collage and screen printing, Emily’s illustrative work draws from childhood memories, an inquisitive nature and a vivid imagination. Her first book WANTED! RALFY RABBIT, BOOK BURGLAR was published by Bloomsbury this year.

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Viviane Schwarz Original Art. Cartridge paper, casein paint and indian ink.

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The cat character is Tiny Cat from There are Cats in this Book series with Walker Books.

Viviane Schwarz is an author, artist and maker of interactive books, games and comics.

Her books have been published all around the world and have been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and have won her a Booktrust Best New Illustrator’s Award.

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Adam Stower Original Art. Acrylic inks for the black line and to colour the picture too. Finished off some detail with coloured pencil. On heavyweight cartridge paper.

The picture features characters from Grumbug! (which is the sequel to Troll and the Oliver).

Troll loves cake! Here we see him lifting Oliver, Dolly and the Red Chair to retrieve a dropped cupcake. Oliver is reading Grumbug, and barely notices what is going on. He must be used to having Trolls around the house by now.

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Alice Tait Original Art. Coloured pencils, coloured inks, pencil and dip pen, on fine grain cartridge paper.

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’Beasts of Bath’ is a humorous portrait of Bath’s most troublesome residents. They are often on the front page of The Bath Chronicle as the scourge of the city, and posters up throughout the city reminding us not to feed them – which remind me of villainous wanted posters, and giving them a certain notoriety!

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David Tazzyman Limited Edition Print. Drawn freehand with a hb pencil on paper. Drawings are scanned in to photoshop and arranged and edited.

Characters are from the Mr Gum series, Circus Of Thieves series, Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face series and You Can’t Take An Elephant On The Bus. Mr Gum and Armitage Shank organising a jousting match for money between their 2 lackeys Billy William and Hank or Frank.

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Britta Teckentrup Signed Limited Edition Print Collage Britta Teckentrup is an award-winning author and illustrator of many well-loved books for children, including the bestselling The Memory Tree, The Odd One Out and Grumpy Cat. Britta has published over 80 children’s picture books in over 20 different countries. Her fine art work has been frequently exhibited at her London gallery and at art fairs all over the world.

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Gillian Tyler Original Art. Pen and watercolour illustration on handmade 300lb Two Rivers watercolour paper.

The Illustration is of a Penistone Sheep (or white-faced woodland) a rare breed common where Gillian lives, the edge of the Pennines. Both Rams and ewes have the distinctive curly horns. Gillian planted a meadow this year and was full of anticipation.

The sheep is sharing a book with its twin lambs.

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Sarah Warburton Limited Edition Print Sarah Warburton has created many books, working for a large variety of publishers, including illustrating the Rumblewick series, which has sold worldwide and is under movie option with DreamWorks.

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Jim Field Original Art. Pencil, water colour pencils and ink on Arches Aquarelle paper (300gsm).

The picture features several characters from Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field. It’s all about the seating rules . . . Hares sit on chairs, cats sit on mats, but frog doesn’t want to sit on a log, he wants the comfy red chair, meanwhile dog wants to sit in frog.

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Joel Stewart Original Art. Ink, gouache, and watercolour on HP watercolour paper.

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The piece features characters from Joel’s up-coming picture book Tiny Cops & Robbers.

Joel Stewart is a writer and illustrator of children’s books and has published over 20 books. He is known internationally for his Dexter Bexley picture books, and for illustrations for contemporary authors such as Julia Donaldson, Carol Ann Duffy, and Michael Rosen as well as classics by authors such as Hans Christian Andersen and Lewis Carroll.

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Rebecca Ashdown Original artwork. Collage using pencil crayon and acrylic inks on 160gsm cartridge paper.

This is The Whopper, listening to Percy and Boris reading a bedtime story. The Whopper is Percy’s big, hairy monstrous lie. If you can’t see him - it might be because you’re too grown up. Only children can see a real Whopper. Rebecca Ashdown’s work combines drawing, printmaking and collage with digital techniques and her books include The Whopper, Bob and Flo and T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

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