The
Ruby the Duckling books by me and
Rebecca Harry are particularly popular around Easter time. I guess this has something to do with Ruby's resemblance to a yellow Easter chick.
Rebecca and I decided to mark this Easter by offering Ruby's readers the chance to win a portrait of Ruby by Rebecca in a prize competition. To enter they had to paint or draw their own Ruby portrait and send a photo of it to Rebecca or myself via Twitter or Facebook. Rebecca had provided some guidance on how to do this on a
How to Draw Ruby activity sheet on the
Hatchling Books web site.
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Click here to download a copy of Rebecca's
How to Draw Ruby sheet. |
Here are the lovely drawings and paintings we received in response:
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| The first Ruby to arrive was this one, by a real life Ruby, age 3. |
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| By Elodie, age 5. |
The clutch of Rubies shown below arrived together from the same class!
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This first clutch of lovely pictures is from Leyla May age 3, Madison age 4, Ava age 4, Lewi age 3, Deakon age 4,
Grace age 4, Emelia age 3, Annette age 5 & Rhiannon age 5 … |
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| … and this second cracking selection is from Brodie age 5, Bobby-Jai age 5, Isla age 5, Harry age 5, Charles age 5, Amelia age 5, Daniel age 4, Jenson age 3, Khloe age 3, Jenson age 3, Ethan age 3 and Jack age 5. |
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| By Rhiannon, age 4. |
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| By Mair |
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| Our last entry was from another real life Ruby!. |
When the competition was finished, Rebecca wrote all the names on strips of paper, put them into a bag and got her son, Iolo, to pick a winner at random, which was …
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| The winning picture by Ethan, age 3. |
… this painting by Ethan Ethrington!
Congratulations to Ethan! This lovely portrait of Ruby, signed by Rebecca and myself, will be winging its way to you shortly.
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| Rebecca painted this picture of Ruby especially for the competition. |
