Alan Windram

Alan Windram is the author of four children’s picture books including the 2019 BookBug Picture Book Prize winning One Button Benny. He is also a publisher and co-founder of indie children’s publisher Little Door Books. He writes the sort of stories that he loved reading as a young person – fun adventures with the odd twist and moral tale.

His picture book events are highly interactive full of songs, images, stories, audience interaction and participation. There is often some robot dancing too! He has taken his events all over Scotland and Northern England working in schools, libraries and book festivals.

The picture book events are for ages 3-6. For late primary age children, he does an event called ‘Inspiration to Publication’ based on his award-winning picture book, demystifying how a book is published, taking the children on the books journey from a blank page to winning the biggest picture book award in Scotland. During this event he shows lots of images on his writing process, how he started out as an author, the process of how the books characters were created by the illustrator, printing processes, publishing, foreign versions of the book, and writing original songs for book events.

Photo credit: Matthew O’Donnell