An Introduction to Children's Picture Book Illustration with Mini Grey

If you came to hear author and illustrator Mini Grey talking in Stonesfield about her work - or if you have always wanted to try and create a children's picture book - you may be interested to know that Mini is running a three-day course this summer in Buckingham as part of a new summer school.

The course will be an informal exploration of ways to create children's picture books in words and pictures, from Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th August inclusive. For more information about Mini's course and the rest of the school see here.

The course should be excellent - Mini is a patient and hugely inspiring teacher and her work is outstanding - 

It’s extremely rare to find a brilliant illustrator who can tell a gripping, original tale so effortlessly. Like fine cheese, you feel Hermelin will only improve with age

- Alex O'Connell, The Times

British Gardens in Time

Nymans, West Sussex - one of the gardens in BBC4's forthcoming 4-part series that tells the history of gardens and places them in their social and historical context by focusing on four gardens and the people who created them. Chris Beardshaw, one of the presenters, says ' This series is the perfect example of how it is possible to tell the story of not just gardens but of the social, industrial and political developments that have shaped, or themselves been shaped by, their external environment.'

Garden historian Katie Campbell has written a fascinating and beautifully illustrated book to accompany the series and will be giving an illustrated talk on British Gardens in Time in Woodstock Methodist Church on Tuesday 20 May at 7pm - tickets £5 from The Woodstock Bookshop, in aid of the building project at Woodstock Methodist Church.