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Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear go for a walk in the woods. Possibly for a picnic. The picture is from PriceClan's latest picturebook, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I originally published the text with Cambridge University Press as part of their early reading series, but the illustrations are new, by my brother Adam. When I commented that Papa Bear and Mama Bear reminded me very much of Papa Price and Mama Price, Adam said, "Well, yeah . Obviously."      But soft! Who comes here, into this woodland glade? Goldilocks discovers the bears' house.        These images are by PriceClan's younger brother, by the way. Adam, not Andrew. Concentrate. Three Billy Goats Gruff                 Andrew is the older brother , and illustrated my Three Billy Goats Gruff. The Runaway Chapatti    Adam is the younger, and illustr...

Three Billy Goats Gruff, £2-31 Last month I blogged about how to publish a picture book with Createspace.      This month, I'll tell you how we also published the book as a Kindle ebook. Once again, we found How To Format Your Picturebook For Createspace Without The Frustration by A. Olsen extremely useful. Illustrator Andrew Price had already used a graphics programme to produce all the pages, with the text embedded in the images. He had saved all these pages several times over, in different folders. Once as huge graphics programmes, with all their layers, at four times the size they needed to be. Secondly, as equally huge jpegs, and finally as jpegs resized to fit our Createspace paperback. You can read about this here. To turn these pictures into an e-book, we had to decide between two programmes: Download here Kindle Kids' Book Creator... Download here Or Kindle's Comic Creator. They are both free programmes which yo...

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It's been wonderful having you all join me here, folks - but there's been so much happening, it's been hard to keep up.         Let's join our roaming camera for a round-up... Inside the janitor's broom cupboard...  At The Front Entrance... Inside, At The Party... Speeches - The Troll Thanks Everyone... The Goats' 45 minute speech on why everyone should vote Green... Back Outside, At The Door Back Inside, On The Dance-Floor... As the music ends... That's all, folks!             Goodbye!      Bye-bye, darlings!   Goodbye!    Bye-eeee! Goodbye Everyone!  Thank You For Joining Us!  Three Billy Goats Gruff Story Book Three Billy Goats Gruff Colouring-In and Activity Book US Edition (Conforms to American spelling.) The Runaway Chapatti Tinku Tries To Help  

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                Hi again!      There's such an atmosphere here at the launch for Three Billy Goats Gruff!      The limos are circling the blog and we'll soon be welcoming our first star!      And wait!      A limo is pulling up!           I can't see who's getting out yet....           It's sure to be someone exciting!           It's - it's -                                              Ooh, I'm thrilled! It's the Bridge! I was another bridge, further down river, but the part was written out. That's how it is in this business. ...