Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Yiting Lee and Swapna Haddow

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In this episode Lucy chats to illustrator Yiting Lee and writer Swapna Haddow about their latest titles with publishers Magic Cat, Little Dinosaurs, Big Questions.

Little Dinosaurs, Big Questions, features ten fictional comic strip stories with supportive tools to help understand the difficult things about life. Designed for grown-ups to read with children.

Yiting is a children’s book author and illustrator from Taiwan, based in England. Yiting graduated from MA Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in 2012. She focuses on picture books, and whimsical and unpredictable stories are something she always loves to deliver. She likes to keep the story simple and the illustration full, because she knows children love looking into those details like she did. In her illustration, she mainly uses watercolour, gouache, ink, colour pencils and whatever she newly discovered.

Swapna Haddow is the multi award-winning children’s author of the Dave Pigeon series, published by Faber & Faber. The Dave Pigeon series has received rave reviews since first publishing in 2016 and went on to win three regional awards in the UK and was shortlisted for the prestigious Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award. Swapna loves to write about boisterous animals that cause mayhem and is working with Faber & Faber, Magic Cat, Scholastic, Oxford University Press and Macmillan to make sure mean cats, grizzly bears and big-hearted little rabbits find their place on the bookshelves. Friendship and humour are always at the heart of what she loves to write.

This episode of Comic Boom is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors Licensing and Collecting Society.

Yiting’s Recommendation:

Spike and Suzy by Willy Wandersteen

Swapna’s Recommendation:

This Land by Mark Abnet

Lucy’s Recommendation:

Ditching Saskia by John Moore and Neetols

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