I Know How to Draw an Owl: Matt James’s 2025 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech

I Know How to Draw an Owl: Matt James’s 2025 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech

Thanks so much. I’m incredibly honoured to be here again! Wild. The last time I was here — for I Know Here, by Laurel Croza — I felt like a total outsider. Laurel and I were sitting next to legends: Peter Sís, John Burningham, and Helen Oxenbury — all these people whose work had helped shape my — and probably all of our — ideas of what a picture book could or should be. It was…a bit embarrassing. Beautiful, but embarrassing.
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