"Biscuit Bear’s circus is in full swing. The pictures for Biscuit Bear involve quite a lot of collage – found pictures, textures, scans, and photos of real biscuits (and tomatoes). All held together with wood glue." Photograph: Random House
"Biscuit Bear’s Biscuit Circus has been brutally ravaged by Bongo the Dog and Biscuit Bear has just realised the existential problems of being made of pastry. It was quite thrilling to try and draw the true scale of the Biscuit Disaster. Always include a few sharp knives if possible." Photograph: Random House
"Here are the Dish and Spoon living it up – carelessly blowing all their money on champagne, jewels and gambling – but they just don’t know any better. (Never mind exactly how the Spoon is driving the car.) Circle-shaped things turn up often in this book: the Dish, the Moon, a silver dollar – and the Dish and Spoon’s story sort of goes full circle too." Photograph: Random House
"After a bank robbery, a breakage and prison, the Dish and Spoon meet again in a junk shop. Through the book the moon has the face of a silver dollar – until now when the moon is the Spoon’s real heart’s desire. The cows are collaged in – I think they are from some old encyclopedia" Photograph: Random House
"The fun with Traction Man is transforming everyday household environments into scenes for action and adventure – and now I notice my four-year-old son doing this sort of thing with his toys all the time. It’s also good to smuggle in the odd film reference – here we have a somewhat Yoda-esque potato" Photograph: Random House
"Traction Man is rescuing Scrubbing Brush from the Bin. I was thinking the Bin could be an ideal setting for a super-low-budget horror movie – the food that’s been thrown out is hovering somewhere between alive and dead – the chips are killer zombies, the bits of sausage look like dead men’s fingers, and the most evillest bin-thing of all is the Leader of the Beans (who is perched on the can lid.) They want to suck the life-force out of Scrubbing Brush" Photograph: Random House
"Illustrating Jim (who runs away from his Nurse and is eaten by a Lion) by Hilaire Belloc was huge fun" This cautionary tale is related by a narrator whose tongue is firmly in his cheek, and it features gore and dismemberment – and also Tea and Cakes and Jam – simply all the things I love to draw best. Jim is showered with sweets and treats – but what he really wants is a bit of a dash for freedom. Photograph: Random House
"Here is Jim seizing his chance to run off. The zoo is heavily over-regulated – even the animals are strictly not allowed any fun at all. (Except for Ponto the lion who has just discovered that his cage door is surprisingly open.) Jim’s nurse is being accosted by a slightly predatory looking gentleman" Photograph: Random House
"In Three By The Sea a black cat, a white dog and a little grey mouse all live happily together in a beach hut at the seaside – until a stranger blows in one night and disrupts their comfortable existence. I wanted the pictures of their life on the beach to be full of space and light and breeze. (And pebbles.)" Photograph: Random House
"After a blazing row everyone is having an uncomfortable night (except the Stranger.) My pictures are usually made on very heavy watercolour paper. I use liquid watercolours, Quink ink, bleach and pencil scribbling. It’s good to let some accidents happen – I like a bit of splattering. And I’m getting a bit addicted to masking fluid – it’s pulling the rubbery latex off when it’s dry that’s so absorbing. But it smells of old fish." Photograph: Random House
