My Mum, Joyce Dunbar and I have collaborated on three books so far; Shoe Baby was our first. The story came about while I was studying illustration at Brighton University, I drew a picture of a girl stepping through a sea of shoes which sparked an idea for Mum, she wrote a story about a baby who has learned how to say ‘How do you do?’ and goes on a mad adventure in a shoe. Mum managed to include in the book lots of things I love to draw from an octopus in a hat to a polka-dot hankie, the end result is 'Tickety-boo'.
'A story full of ridiculous charm.' The Guardian
Published by Walker Books 2005
'A story full of ridiculous charm.' The Guardian
Published by Walker Books 2005
Ten years after Shoe Baby was born along came Pat-A-Cake Baby. This book had a similar journey, Mum was thinking about babies baking and so I drew a series of sketches, mum wrote some words, I drew some more pictures and so it went on until eventually the book arrived.
It tells the story of Cookie Baby who wakes up the kitchen, it's time to make a very special midnight cake. With acrobatic baby helpers and a sprinkle-spronkle of magic the cake is ready just in time for tea..with who? The moon, of course!
Pat-A-Cake Baby won the Mal Pete Children's Book Award 2015.
'The two talented Dunbars serve up a riot of rhyme, colour and action as the baby bakers get stuck into a mixing bowl full of magic and mayhem. Success on a plate!'
Lancashire Evening Post
Published by Walker Books 2015
Our third collaboration I Will Not Wear Pink is out now!
Published by Otter-Barry Books
Published by Otter-Barry Books
