Village Books & The MCT present

Rob Biddulph: Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City

Village Books and The MCT are delighted to be welcoming award winning and record breaking author and illustrator Rob Biddulph to Dulwich for his debut fiction title. The first in a trilogy Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City is a tale of danger, magic, art and friendship.
Peanut Jones is stuck in a boring new school and often wondering what has happened to her dad who has gone missing. Apparently, he left them for a new life in Mexico. Peanut knows this can’t be true: he wouldn’t abandon his Packed Lunch Post It Note duties.
Getting through the days feels like wading through treacle for Peanut, even with her friend Rockwell by her side. When she finds a bright yellow pencil, life changes. Drawing has always felt like magic to Peanut but now, it really is magic. Pictures she draws with the magic pencil, become real. Suddenly she is, literally and metaphorically, pulled into a world full of colour, creativity and excitement but also a world of danger, enemies and challenges. A world she could never have imagined, even in her wildest dreams, but it is a world where she might find out what happened to her Dad. Packed with art references and rich in STEM details, Peanut Jones demonstrates that creative thinking is not just confined to art.

Rob will also be discussing his latest picture book An Odd Dog Christmas. It’s Christmas, and this Odd Dog is running out of time to find the perfect present for her pal… But when she meets a new friend who needs help, she realises that gifts might not be the most important thing about Christmas after all…