Oi Cat!: Kes Gray (Oi Frog and Friends)

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Armed with just four essential items – a professional face-paint kit, safety pins, a stash of coloured card and ribbons – I can throw together a World Book Day outfit in minutes, using the clothes in my daughter’s wardrobe.

Fans of the series will love this outing as it is essentially more of the same, but delve a little deeper and it is playing with the lore of the world. It’s a brilliant premise that can run and run, and with such appealing illustrations from Jim Field and such clever rhymes from Kes Gray, here’s hoping it does. In this video I'll show you how to draw CAT from the 'Oi' series written by Kes Gray and illustrated by me. Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award, and been shortlisted for many more!Not many children's books create a universe in which the characters inhabit, but Gray has achieved it. The combination of Gray's writing and Field's illustrations work wonderfully once again, no matter what Gray fires at Field, he can draw it. After that you are free to continue to the next picture or to share your progress on social media if you’d like. won the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award and was shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award and the British Book Awards in 2016, amongst others.

As well as winning the Red House Children's Book Award for Eat Your Peas, Billy's Bucket and Daisy and the Trouble With Zoos(Random House), Kes was noted by The Independent as one of the top ten children's authors in the UK only a year after publishing his first book. Helps to have: Jewel and star stickers for the crown, plus the two key weapons in every disorganised parent’s World Book Day arsenal: coloured card paper in a wide variety of colours and safety pins.Cats sit on gnats, Dogs sit on logs, Raccoons sit on macaroons, Armadillos sit on pillows and Chicks sit on bricks. Cat has to come up with a different name to rhyme something with, and dog has some great suggestions. It’s World Book Day in the UK and Ireland today, one many parents approach each year with a stomach-clenching sense of dread. A brilliant rhyming read-aloud text, jam-packed with animals and silliness – perfect for children and parents alike. Helps to have: A bag of colourful ribbons, I have discovered, can be very useful in a World Book Day crisis.