Goodbye from our Writer Illustrator in Residence Nick Sharratt

Published on: 27 February 2023

Nick Sharratt has come to the end of his tenure as BookTrust’s Writer-Illustrator in Residence! Here he reveals the winners of his competition.

Thank you to the children who entered my animal drawing competition. We had so many brilliant entries! You are all very imaginative and excellent at drawing. Thank you, too, to all the teachers who encouraged their classes to invent some amazing animals.

It was very difficult to choose the winners, but these are the artists who will receive a bundle of my books:

The winners for Nursery and Reception are Daniel for your Liti and Casey for your Foot Snake.

Liti by Daniel

Foot Snake by Casey

The winners for Year 1 and Year 2 are Sebastian for your Tiger Jellyfish and Mollie for your Bunnyfly.

Tiger Jellyfish by Sebastian

Bunnyfly by Mollie

The winners for Year 3 and above are Martha May for your Three Shelled Party Snail and Lily for your Blue Bubble Baby.

Three shelled party snail by Martha May

Bubble Baby by Lily

We had such a lot of incredible entries that we’ve created a gallery of our favourites – check it out here:

Entries we particularly enjoyed

An entry into Nick's invent an animal competition

Several creatures created for Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

An entry into Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

A tagercorn

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A drafox

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Two entries into Nick's competition

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An entry into Nick's competition

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A tapir tiger

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An entry into Nick's competition

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An entry into Nick's competition

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An entry into Nick's competition

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An entry into Nick's competition

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A hetholete and hetholotle

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A super saurus

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An entry into Nick's competition

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Jeff the Kind Friendly Monster

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An entry into Nick's competition

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An entry into Nick's competition

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A draagle

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A sharrel

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An entry into Nick's competition

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A mixture between a cow and a chameleon

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A stingrama

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Two entries into Nick's competition

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A catog

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A bat giraffe

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A unistorm

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A butterladytiger

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An entry into Nick's invent an animal competition

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Two entries into Nick's competition

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Several creatures created for Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

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An entry into Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

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An entry into Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

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An entry into Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

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An entry into Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

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An entry into Nick Sharratt's drawing competition

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A mix between a giraffe and a hedgehog

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A fishdog

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A mooofish

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A mooopig

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Two entries into Nick's competition

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A Bush creature

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An entry into Nick's competition

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An entry into Nick's competition

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A D-Rex

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An entry into Nick's competition

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An entry into Nick's competition

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A stag fish

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I’ve had a wonderful time sharing my passion for pictures with you. And it looks like you all love illustrations and drawing as well, which is fantastic. I hope you’ve enjoyed my tips and my videos. Don’t forget to keep drawing for fun and reading with your favourite adults.

Topics: Writer in Residence, Early Years professional, Health professional, Librarian, Local authority professional, Parent/carer, Publisher/bookseller, Teacher (primary), Teacher (secondary), Writer, Interview, Reading for pleasure, Gallery, Nick Sharratt

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