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Three Billy Goats Gruff - Susan and Andrew Price At last, Three Billy Goats Gruff is available on Amazon, both as paperback and ebook, after much cursing on the part of me and Andrew Price, the illustrator. With apologies for the length, here's what Andrew and I have learned about the process. How To...Olsen This blog is going to be about Createspace . If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. After going to the mat with Createspace, producing the Kindle is cake. But don't let me put you off, if you have a spare picture-book. Lash out a couple of quid on How To Format Your Picturebook For Createspace Without The Frustration and get stuck in. We found Olsen's book invaluable, but worked out a few wrinkles for ourselves too.  Graphics Programme You will need a graphics programme, such as PhotoShop (which you can now rent annually or monthly) or the free Open Source programme, Gimp . There are others, such as Canva and one recommended by our o...

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  

Hi folks and welcome back! I'm reporting from the launch party for Three Billy Goats Gruff and they're all arriving - I hear Great Big is in the building but we can't speak to him right now - But another limo's pulling up... Who's this arriving? It's Chapatti!    Star, of course, of that wonderful, ' The Runaway Chapatti ,' which has been such a hit!      I'm going to try and get a word with him...   Find The Runaway Chapatti here.   Never mind, folks - there are plenty more limos circling the block and I'll be here throughout bringing you up-dates - be sure to check back in now... Originally written for the Cambridge Reading series, this is Carnegie Medal-winning author Susan Price’s retelling of the traditional story ‘The Gingerbread Man.’ "Once a girl made a chapatti for her tea. But the chapatti didn’t want to be eaten. Up from the table it jumped, and out of the...