Author, illustrator, world record breaker and festival favourite Rob Biddulph will be in Tunbridge Wells to host a fun-packed session for all the family featuring drawing, stories and lots of laughter.

Rob will bring his award-winning books to life, including his loveable character Gigantic, a small whale with a big heart and his brand new Draw with Rob: Unicorns activity book! You will also have the chance to meet Rob afterwards and he'll happily sign your books.

Book Rob Biddulph - #DrawWithRob
Sat 11 May, 2.00pm

Who on earth is Rob Biddulph? He is a bestselling and multi award-winning author/illustrator of children's books. His first picture book, Blown Away, was published in 2014 and was only the second illustrated book in history to win the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. On 21 May 2020 he broke the Guinness World Record for the largest ever online art class when 45,611 households tuned in to his live #DrawWithRob YouTube class, and in July 2020 he was named as a Point of Light by the Prime Minister, an award that recognises outstanding individuals who are affecting change in their community. The first #DrawWithRob activity book was published in July 2020, is a Sunday Times number one bestseller and won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award 2020. In July 2023, the first in a new series of Draw With Rob books for pre-school children was published. My First Draw With Rob: Dinosaurs features simple puzzles, colouring, fun drawalongs and lots more to help stimulate young artists' creativity. Before he became a full-time author/illustrator he was the art director of the Observer Magazine, NME, SKY and Just Seventeen. He lives in London with his wife and three daughters and hasn't given up hope that, maybe, one of them will go to an Arsenal match with him one day.

The Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival is generously supported by Arts Council England (ACE), Royal Tunbridge Wells Together, Maxipay Accounting Services, and Berry and Lamberts Solicitors.