You write an I'll draw. Now whenever you imagine a beloved picture book say the Grapherlow or we're going on a bear hunt, the idea is that pop into your head are a magical mixture of the author's words and the illustrator's images. Using language and pictures to shape a story is like putting two ingredients in a story book potion. Bang! It makes something incredible. Take for Grapherlow by Julia Dawson and Axel Sheffler did you know in his early sketches Axel gave the mouse clothes and made the Grapherlow really scary. It was only by working together that they came up with the Grapherlow we know today. How about Quentin Blake and Roll-Darl and developing the BFG? Roll-Darl posted one of his sandals to Quentin Blake to show him what the giants, footwear, should really look like. Or look at Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll wrote the words and drew his own Alice in the original handwritten manuscript where the John Tenniel gave Alice her fabulous dress with its puffed sleeves and white pinniform. In look up Nathan Bryan dreamt of a young girl who's obsessed with stars, planets and meteors. It was Dapo Adiola's illustrations that brought it to life, giving us a powerful impression of her wild, sharp and stoppable mind. Of course I wrote down the words for we going on a bear hunt that I never said who was going on a bear hunt. Helen Oxenbury made that decision and you can follow each of the characters through the story. So we want you to get into pairs, put your pens together and work collaboratively on your own picture book.