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Tony Flowers is an award‑winning illustrator, author, and educator known for his detailed, humorous artwork and storytelling across picture books, chapter books, and graphic novels. Drawing inspiration from real life, travel, and everyday moments, Tony creates warm, adventurous worlds for young readers. He also teaches widely, supporting students and teachers in building creative confidence and visual‑literacy skills.

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  • Kaba Samas castle

  • School Talk images book week 2015

    Every year I am lucky enough to spend time talking at schools around the country. No time is more frantic than around Children’s Book Week. In my sessions I invite story suggestions from the children and we visually create stories and characters to populate them with. I thought it might be fun looking at a few…

  • 12 top tips for public speaking and school talk

    Public speaking and school talks are a part of promoting yourself when your are involved in the Children’s publishing market. It was the subject of some discussion at a SCBWI meeting in Canberra last night. The talented Susanne Gervay was sharing some insight on the state of Australian publishing when the topic came up. As…

  • Madam Boar

    This character appears in” Samurai vs Ninja book 3: Day if the Dreadful Undead”.This is Madam Boar. I thought it would interest some people to see the basic steps to get get this image ready for print. This image appear (as at stage 3) on page 62 of the book. I have spent a little…

  • Samurai vs Ninja Kamizumo Game

    When looking for extra activities for Samurai vs Ninja, I came across the game Kamizumo. Kamizumo is a Japanese ‘paper wrestling’ game. Paper figures are place them on the Kamizumo paper ring. You tap your figures on the edge of the paper ring, the first figure knock over of out looses the round. I have been hard…

  • The Totoro’s branch

    From woodblock prints to anime. Japanese inspiration for ‘Samurai vs Ninja’, my series with Nick Falk, is everywhere. One of my favourite anime artists the master himself, Hayao Miyazaki. In this illustration (right) from the Curse of the Oni (page 71), you can see how I have borrowed from Miyazaki to give Kaba –sama a…

  • Dinazor Sokağı

    The Dinosaurs of Saurus Street have landed in Istanbul. Turkish publishers ‘Final’ have released ‘Dinazor Sokağı’. So if your looking for Turkish editions of Saurus Street, check out http://www.idefix.com/kitap/dinazor-sokagi-bahceye-tiranozor-girmis-nick-falk/tanim.asp?sid=YNL5HG6W6S3SK1ZM5VLH

  • Staedtler Pens

  • Ghost Samurai Horse

    i have been working through the last chapters for book 3 in the Samurai vs Ninja book series. One of the main characters appears on a ghost battle horse, ready to charge down a hill into battle. Below are some of my research images and sketches to create the battle horse character. The finished image as…

  • Samurai vs Ninja released into the reading world