Booktrust’s fourth online writer in residence

Award winning author-illustrator Polly Dunbar started s as Booktrust’s fourth online writer in residence on Monday 13 September.

Polly, best known for her character Penguin, will be inviting visitors to the Booktrust website into her studio, opening up her sketch book with illustration tips and to download an exclusive picture book created especially for her residency.

As well as winning the Nestle Silver award 2007, The Booktrust Early Years awards 2007, The Red House award 2008 and being shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, Penguin has been made into an enormously successful puppet show. Long Nose Puppets, of which Polly is co-founder, also tours adaptations of her popular books Shoe Baby and Fly Away Katie.
Polly lives and works by the sea in Brighton.

Polly takes the virtual baton from award-winning debut author and independent bookseller Evie Wyld.

For Evie’s last blog and for Polly’s first blog see the Booktrust website http://www.booktrust.org.uk/