• 48 NEW MONSTER PLAYING CARDS•

Here's one of those jobs that is a joy to receive and a pleasure to work on. Monstats is a brand new series of 'playing' cards for children that will help them to learn numeracy - but without numbers!! 

Well, minimal amount of numbers. Primarily it teaches mathematics by clever use of picture permutations, and all based on wonderfully fantastic monsters. I was given free reign to create and illustrate 12 scary monsters which would then be expanded into 48 unique cards.

Here's the logo design to watch out for.

The card packs come with various lesson plans and activity sheets and in a few weeks time can be ordered online from

www.monstats.com

All 48 cards plus key card and reverse design.

There are 12 classes of monsters in 5 different environments and each monster can be vegetarian, carnivore, male, female and dangerous on a scale of 2 to 10. Add to this the tail length and wingspan and you soon realise that there are (probably) millions of permutations to engage children in a wide spectrum of subject lessons.

Detail showing individual cards.

Detail showing head of Green Dragon.

This green Ogre is my favourite from the whole set. I'm planning a Monster workshop in schools and hoping to print out this Ogre at life size to accompany me!

Remember to watch out for these in the coming weeks, the card packs come with various lesson plans and activity sheets and in a few weeks time can be ordered online from

www.monstats.com

•CRAZY MONSTER MIXER IS PUBLISHED•

GET IT HERE

Over 4 months in the making, many notebooks and tons of sketches and over 9Gb, that's NINE GIGABYTES of new artwork.

14 monsters in total but the potential to create many, many more as you mix new ones from existing body parts.

Over 50 full screens are displayed in the book - made of almost 500 individual images or 'assets'

150 sound files - 2 colouring-in pages - and over 20 secret buttons that lead to even more fun and excitement.

I’ve already started writing various back stories for

these monsters and plan to bring out a follow up set

of tales linked to each of the most popular monsters.

Click on an image to enlarge but please remember these are all strictly copyright. ©

•MONSTER MIXER MASKS•

The Horny Grumblesnout's big secret is out!

He likes dressing up with fancy feathers.

This is just one of the secret back stories you can discover in my new Crazy Monster Mixer picture book App.

I've created this cut-out-and-wear mask of Grumbly to give out at the SCBWI conference in Winchester in 2 weeks time.

There'll be a comprehensive posting very soon with facts, stats and videos of the new book.

Please click on Grumbly to make him bigger but remember ALL images in the blog are strictly copyright. ©