Very chuffed after a year of illustrating to finally have my hands on the now fully printed and published ‘When Grampa was a boy’ book. The illustrations were a joy to work on but I am also very happy to have finished it!
This children’s book is written by Liz Coutts and illustrated by Sophie Martin. The book recounts Grampa’s true story of his adventurous journey when he was a boy in the 1950’s travelling on his own on an argonaut plane from boarding school in Scotland to his home in Uganda, Africa. Him and his teddy, who can be spotted on each page throughout the book had an exciting adventure on this journey which included stop overs in London, Rome, Cairo and Khartoum. It would nowadays take 8-9 hours by plane and in the 1950s took Grampa 4 days!
The book is 40 pages full colour throughout and is a perfect bound soft back measuring 21 x 21cm.
A proportion of profits from the sale of the book will be donated to ‘Sands’ stillbirth and neonatal death charity.
It is now available to buy from my online shop for £5.99
Great to see ‘Grampa’ receiving his copy of the book for his 70th birthday based on his true story, amazingly the whole project was kept a secret and was a complete surprise to him until this moment!
