Steven Lenton and Tracey Corderoy are doings a tour of different blogs – posting features and articles about their experiences as…… the illustrator and writer of the bestselling series Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam.

“Creating all these new characters has been a real joy!” Steven Lenton writing about his experience illustrating the Shifty McGifty series on Picturebook.

“Author extraordinaire Tracey Corderoy was putting the finishing touches to a text all about dogs and cakes and her agent, Eve White, had just sent this to Nosy Crow.  I think there was a little EUREKA! moment in the Nosy Crow nest when they put Tracey’s text and my illustrations together and mine and Tracey’s worlds very happily collided!!” Steven Lenton writing about how he came to illustrate Shifty on FCBG

“We have been very lucky this year and have been invited along to all the major festivals and Tracey has been touring literally HUNDREDS of schools up and down the country with The Diamond Chase! Catch us together at the Edinburgh Festival, Bath Festival, The Cheltenham Festival which we are launching again this year.” Steven Lenton in an interview on The Book Sniffer.

“Writing about baddies certainly has its challenges. On the one hand showing your characters’ flaws to the world, whilst trying to make them likeable is risky. But likable they have to be for children to root for them, and love them.” Tracey Corderoy on Book Lover Jo

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