{"id":1634,"date":"2015-01-04T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomastaylor-author.com\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2022-01-17T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:14:24","slug":"penny-dann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/penny-dann\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Dann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1733 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles.jpg 567w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles-140x140.jpg 140w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles-500x500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ThomasTaylor-TooManyTickles-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/>A year after the publication of <i>Too Many Tickles<\/i> (Macmillan), I am deeply saddened to report the death of Penny Dann, who illustrated it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I only knew Penny from working with her on this book, though she and I were near neighbours on the south coast. After publication, it was Penny who suggested a tour of local independent bookshops, reading the book to children and their parents (the parents came into their own when the tickle actions began), and drawing scenes and characters from the book. Penny also produced take-home colouring and activity sheets, and the events were noisy (verging on the wild!) and fun-filled. The children especially adored watching Penny draw. To be honest, I\u2019m still struggling to accept\u00a0that we won\u2019t ever do these events again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Penny proved to be a genuinely lovely, warm and sparky person. She was also modest about her considerable talent, brushing off my insistence that she was the perfect person to illustrate <i>Too Many Tickles<\/i>, even though I meant it \u2014 she really was. As a former illustrator of picture books myself, now writing books for others to illustrate, it isn\u2019t always easy to accept another person\u00a0will\u00a0do the work I used to do. But I was delighted when Penny was chosen \u2014 she brought colour and vibrancy to the book, and made it sing. <i>Too Many Tickles<\/i> is one of my best-selling books, and Penny is a large part of the reason for that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last I heard from her was a few weeks ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04v5hhy\">Lisa Riley read <i>Tickles<\/i> on CBeebies<\/a>. Penny e-mailed to say she\u2019d seen it, and was pleased \u2014 her pictures were obviously prominent on the screen. Although I had been kept informed by our editor, I didn\u2019t know just how ill she was at the time, and she died not long after. I\u2019m so very sorry that we\u2019ll never work on a book together again. Rest in peace, Penny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read Penny&#8217;s obituary in the Bookseller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/childrens-illustrator-penny-dann-dies\">here<\/a>, and Julia Eccleshare&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/jan\/23\/penny-dann?CMP=share_btn_fb\">obituary in the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after the publication of Too Many Tickles (Macmillan), I am deeply saddened to report the death of Penny Dann, who illustrated it. 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