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Rob Biddulph & Peanut Jones at the Guildford Book Festival

  • Holy Trinity Church High Street Guildford GU1 3RR (map)

“A thrilling journey into a magical world packed with Rob’s brilliant humour.
— David Walliams on Peanut Jones

Join award-winning author/illustrator and Lockdown Legend Rob Biddulph for a fun, drawing-filled, story-telling event! 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. Rob will tell us how his notorious villain Mr White will stop at nothing to wipe out colour and creativity everywhere. But he’s gone too far! This time he’s lured Peanut’s mum into terrible danger and only Peanut and her friends can save her...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rob Biddulph is a bestselling and multi award-winning author/illustrator. He was also the official World Book Day Illustrator for 2019, 2020 and 2021. He is the author of many highly, acclaimed, award-winning picture books, including Blown Away, GRRRRR!, Odd Dog Out, Sunk, Kevin, Show and Tell, Dog Gone, The Blue-footed Booby, Gigantic and the Dinosaur Juniors series. In March 2020 he started #DrawWithRob, a series of twice-weekly draw-along videos designed to help parents whose children were forced to stay home from school due to the Covid 19 pandemic. #DrawWithRob became an internet sensation, garnering national and international media coverage, and has been used as a learning resource by thousands of families across the globe. On 21 May 2020 he broke the Guinness World Record for the largest ever online art class when 45,611 people tuned in to his live #DrawWithRob YouTube class. Before he became a full-time author/illustrator Rob was the art director of the Observer Magazine, NME, Uncut, SKY and Just Seventeen. He lives in London with his wife and three daughters and hasn't given up hope that, maybe, one of them will go to an Arsenal match with him one day. Follow Rob on Twitter at @RobBiddulph.

This event is kindly sponsored by Martin Grant Homes