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Zoe Arena

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I write picture books. Debut: MANDY IS STILL A BANANA, Hachette Children’s - out now. Agent: James Catchpole. www.zoearena.com

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Steve, thank you so much for these words! Means a lot. x

30.09.2025 13:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha, they seem nice!

06.02.2025 17:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#NewIllustrationoftheDay by author/illustrator David Litchfield from his bestselling The Bear and the Piano, about stardom and family. A tenth anniversary edition is published today, with a pull-out poster. From Frances Lincoln Books (Quarto). This image transports us all into a shaft of sunlight.

06.02.2025 07:36 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

I think MICHAEL ROSEN'S SAD BOOK by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social & Quentin Blake is the best book I've ever read about death and grief. It's accessibile even to very young children, but has an honesty and emotional power that is totally ageless. Everyone should read it, however old they are!

27.01.2025 18:58 👍 100 🔁 22 💬 7 📌 0

Gary! This is brilliant. Absolutely well done!

25.01.2025 20:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hi Mr S J Picturebooks! Welcome.

22.01.2025 11:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I still have a Waitrose Yule Log if you want it. Sell by date’s 25th Jan.

15.01.2025 14:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I feel like that when I post on Twitter.

14.01.2025 08:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m on a train journey and have just found the complete Withnail & I script. It’s perfection.

Withnail: ‘Warm up!? We may as well sit round a cigarette.’

14.01.2025 08:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YES!

10.01.2025 18:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Years ago I worked with a man who said he could count his life out in coffee spoons. Stayed with me, that did.

31.12.2024 08:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agree. Have gone through the same thought process.

27.12.2024 10:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Parboil. What a silly word. Have always avoided saying it.

27.12.2024 09:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh, it’s excellent.

20.12.2024 22:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve put a shout out too! x

20.12.2024 18:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don’t make Duo sad!

18.12.2024 09:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes. I’m sure people can whiff lofty a mile off.

21.11.2024 10:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know, the more I’m on every orifice the more I question why. I’ll post lofty thought posts that get little engagement or the fact I just folded a t-shirt in the air and it’ll get a tonne.

21.11.2024 10:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This looks absolutely beautiful.

19.11.2024 07:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Beautiful. What is it about snow that calms everything right down?

19.11.2024 07:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Kermit (the frog) is called in ten different countries...

10. Kermit (Denmark)
9. Kermit (France)
8. Kermit (Romania)
7. Kermit (Slovakia)
6. Kermit (Italy)
5. Kermit (Canada)
4. Kermit (Iceland)
3. Kermit (the Netherlands)
2. Kermit (Poland)
1. Gustavo (Spain)

18.11.2024 18:21 👍 4087 🔁 598 💬 174 📌 110
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a cartoon character wearing a helmet and goggles is crying while flying ALT: a cartoon character wearing a helmet and goggles is crying while flying

It’s *almost* like old times!

15.11.2024 20:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello! Well, that was easy!

15.11.2024 19:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0