The Adventure of Doris Florence Valentine. This project started as a uni brief but ended in me submitting into the Silent Book Competition and being shortlisted amongst professionals and my work displayed at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

My mum has always been my go-to when I get set a new brief to bounce ideas about with. I remember we were walking our whippet one evening and by the end of the walk we had come up with the idea start to finish so I guess I owe her one now!

My story follows an elderly lady, loosely inspired my great nanna: Doris Florence Valentine, who I only knew for a short while when I was very young but i do remember her impressive magnet collection on her fridge of all the different places she had been! The story follows Doris travelling through fantasy worlds, it is then revealed that Doris had been travelling to these lands through books when she may not have been able to travel physically. 

The aim was to get an audience excited about books, especially picture books the way I get excited about picture books but also I thought it was cool my silent book was all about reading words which is why I applied and now we’re here!