Uncategorized – Blogshank - Mike Smith, Illustrator and Diary Blogger

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May 16, 2013 – 11:48 am

By Mike | Tagged animals, ant, bee, bird, child, comic timing, diary, flower, fox, garden, granny, it was, mike, mole, pussy cat, rabbit, rat, robin, shout, snail, son, sore belly, spider, stroked, table, talked | Comments (1)

An update on The Hundred Decker Bus. It’s been featured as one of Amazon’s Children’s Picks of the Month! I’ve been asked whether it’s in the shops. The answer is yes, many independent bookshops seem to be stocking it. Furtive investigations by my mother-in-law special agent in the field have revealed that each Waterstones branch [...]

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May 10, 2013 – 4:31 pm

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May 7, 2013 – 9:36 pm

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Any Other Busness

May 1, 2013 – 8:43 pm

My book, The Hundred Decker Bus, is published in one week! In celebration here is one of my favourite pages.

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April 29, 2013 – 4:24 pm

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April 22, 2013 – 10:49 am

By Mike | Tagged birth, charts, children, conclusion, diary, flip over, graphs, grow up, kids, know, knowledge, parenthood, parents, relationship, self-awareness, teenage, time, venn diagrams | Comments (2)

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April 12, 2013 – 9:40 am

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April 7, 2013 – 7:17 am

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All Aboard

April 5, 2013 – 2:52 pm

Sorry for the lack of diary entries here recently. Been very busy organising lots of things all at once, which is a challenge for me. In the meantime, here’s the first spread of Hundred Decker Bus, for something to look at. Notice the red double-decker bus! Macmillan deserve much thanks for letting that appear in [...]

By Mike | Tagged book, hundred decker bus, story | Comments (2)