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Kate Pankhurst updated their profile
Jun 12, 2012
Kate Pankhurst commented on Maureen Lynas's event 'York Workshop - The Hero's Journey'
"Looking forward to next event, it's been ages! Kate*"
Oct 16, 2011
Kate Pankhurst commented on Maureen Lynas's event 'Scrawlcrawl and Critique in York'
"Sounds ace, let me know if you need any help organising anything! Kate x"
Apr 25, 2011
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Jan 6, 2011
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About Me
I'm a Leeds based illustrator of children's books. Particular passions of mine include drawing monsters, cats and anything a little bit gruesome or icky!

I've been illustrating professionally for about 10 years. I also work in schools with children and young people on a variety of different creative projects – this gives me lots of inspiration for drawing and story ideas.
What are you working on at the moment?
I've been illustrating a hilarious and genuinely lovely series by Steve Hartley called Danny Baker Record Breaker. It's about a boy called Danny who likes to break unusual, and usually slightly disgusting world records, including worlds loudest armpit fart and spottiest bottom (ahem). The books were published after Steve was included in SCBWI's 'Undiscovered Voices'. I was asked to illustrate them a bit further down the line.
If you had to recommend just one children's book you've read in the last year, what would it be?
I really liked Emily Gravett's 'The Rabbit Problem', all the tactile 'touch, feel and read' elements and pop up pages of hundreds of rabbits made me smile. It's also a genius way of discussing the 'birds and the bees' with children (or I imagine it would be anyway!)
What is the most important thing you learned about writing or illustrating this year?
1. Task avoidance does not actually help you get any work done.
2. To avoid wasted time show your ideas to people rather than 'perfecting' them in private for too long.
3. Make some time to do draw/write for yourself, not always for commissions

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At 15:36 on May 9, 2011, Rebecca Colby said…

Nice to see you again on Saturday! I enjoyed looking at your sketches from the Scrawlcrawl and dare I say, your snail (with trails) gave me some ideas. Happy writing and illustrating!

At 15:18 on May 9, 2011, Mark Alder said…
Hi Kate, lovely to see you again on Saturday and thanks for the friend invitation. Loved you illustrations for the monster emporium btw :)
At 19:44 on March 17, 2011, Steve Hartley said…

Just realised that I'm using your flattering illustration of me as my image - hope you don't mind!

 

 

At 19:40 on March 17, 2011, Steve Hartley said…

Hi Kate!

Good to be your SCBWI friend. By an amazing coincidence, the person who illustrates my Danny Baker books is called Kate Pankhurst. Fancy that. I hope you're as brilliant an illustrator as she is!

Steve

ps. The roughs for On The Scrapheap are absolutely brilliant! I KNEW you'd have fun with the mascots. Wonderful, as usual. Will give you a call soon.

 

 

At 7:57 on March 11, 2011, Anna Violet said…

Hi Kate,

Good to meet you at York. 

Anna

At 8:31 on March 8, 2011, Lynne Chapman said…
hello! Yes, I think it was in Manchester wasn't it? Hope all is good at your end! L x
At 23:36 on March 7, 2011, heather dickinson said…

Hi Kate

 

Good to see you on Saturday. I'm looking forward to the next one. I hope this story is coloured in by then.

Regards to Steve when you see him.

Heather

At 23:12 on January 25, 2011, candygourlay said…
hi kate! thanks for the add!
At 21:58 on January 8, 2011, Maureen Lynas said…

Hi Kate

Just tried to send you an invite to the group but it wants us to be friends first! 

At 21:41 on January 8, 2011, Maureen Lynas said…

Welcome, Kate!

I love the Danny Baker books, a fantastic concept and so well done.

I'm the Regional Advisor for the North East Group and you'd be very welcome to join us. We meet up in York regularly. I'll send you an invitation. Lynne Chapman is in our group and we have a few people interested in picture books, I'm one of them, so it would be fantastic to have you with us.

I love The Rabbit Problem too, I bought it for my daughter for Christmas, she's thirty but a lover of pb's.

Anyway, I'll go and send that invite. Welcome again, Maureen

 
 
 

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