Draw With Rob: The Number One bestselling art activity book from internet sensation, Rob Biddulph

Product Information

was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and was read as a CBeebies Bedtime Story by Chris Kamara in 2019. He is the bestselling and multi award-winning author and illustrator of many highly acclaimed picture books, popular with children and parents alike, including Blown Away, GRRRRR!

Draw With Rob: Monster Madness: The Number One bestselling

Author, illustrator, world record breaker and festival favourite Rob Biddulph will be in Chester to host a fun-packed session for all the family featuring drawing, stories and lots of laughter.

Rob will show us how to bring our own loveable characters to life in this interactive event, and showcase some of our favourite characters from his books. As you plan your day at the Festival, please take into consideration that it takes between 30-60 mins to commute between the Intercontinental, Festival City and Mohammed Bin Rashid Library. In July 2023, the first in a new series of Draw With Rob books for pre-school children was published. Before he became a full-time author/illustrator Rob was the art director of the Observer Magazine, NME, Uncut, SKY and Just Seventeen. Rob will create a magical holiday window for us to celebrate ‘Peanut Jones and The Twelve Portals’, then sticking around to sign your books!

Draw With Rob: The Number One bestselling art activity book

Fizzing with fun and creativity, find out all about Rob's journey from budding artist to award-winning picture book creator, Guinness World Record holder and now middle grade author of Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City. Rob will tell us how his notorious villain Mr White will stop at nothing to wipe out colour and creativity everywhere. His sixth ( Happy Hatchday), seventh ( Give Peas a Chance) and eighth ( Wide Awake) books are the first three in the Dinosaur Juniors series. Rob is a bestselling and multi award winning author/illustrator of titles including Blown Away, GRRRRR! We have a limit on how many wheelchair spaces we can safely accommodate so these need to be reserved in advance.

Rob’s first middle-grade novel, Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City was published by Pan Macmillan in September 2021 to critical acclaim. Rob will launch his new, action packed book, Peanut Jones and the End of the Rainbow with us, the final book in the bestselling Peanut Jones trilogy. This time he’s lured Peanut’s mum into terrible danger and only Peanut and her friends can save her. Find out all about Rob’s journey from budding artist to award-winning picture book creator and Guinness World Record holder in this event fizzing with fun and creativity.

Draw With Rob: Build a Story: Build a Story with the No.1 Draw With Rob: Build a Story: Build a Story with the No.1

Join Rob, star of the hugely popular Draw With Rob series, as he introduces the second book in his Peanut Jones trilogy, Peanut Jones and the Twelve Portals. As well as working on his own books he also illustrates for other authors including Michael Bond (of Paddington fame), Jeff Brown (the Flat Stanley series), Philip Ardagh, Piers Torday, Jenny Pearson, Garth Jennings, Jess Butterworth, SE Durrant, Christian O'Connell and Barry Hutchison.And everyone can learn to draw one of Rob’s characters step-by-step in one of his famous Draw with Rob draw-alongs – so have your pencils at the ready! Village Books presents multi-award-winning author and Lockdown legend Rob Biddulph for a fun, drawing-filled session. Draw With Rob at Christmas was published in October 2020, Draw With Rob: Build A Story in March 2021, Draw With Rob: Monster Madness in July 2021, Draw With Rob: Amazing Animals in February 2022, Draw With Rob at Halloween in September 2022, and Draw With Rob In Space in August 2023. The red-footed boobies are the best bakers, but is it possible that a blue-footed booby is stealing the results of their efforts? This is your chance to join LitFest favourite Rob Biddulph with his rollicking new rhyming tale of missing cakes and baking shenanigans!

Draw With Rob: In Space by Rob Biddulph | Waterstones Draw With Rob: In Space by Rob Biddulph | Waterstones

Join the Draw-along hero to follow this heartwarming story as well as his path to becoming an author-illustrator.

And everyone can learn to draw one of Rob’s characters step-by-step in one of his famous draw-alongs – so have your pencils at the ready! To manage Rob’s infamously long signing queues, we have broken the timing into four slots, holding 25 family units in each slot.