The Great Sheep Shenanigans, my latest collaboration with the marvellous Mei Matsuoka for Andersen Press, was on the shortlist at this morning’s Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2012 ceremony at City Hall. Although we didn’t win one of the main prizes – the picture book prize went to the esteemed duo of Michael Rosen and Nick Sharratt – it was fun to be in a room with a thousand cheering children. After lunch Mei and I paid a visit to a library to meet pupils from a local school.