Doodlemum: A Year of Family Life

Price 19.88 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781444768060

Brand Two Roads

Angie Stevens"s enthusiasm for drawing developed in childhood and she went on to study illustration at the Unviersity of Westminster. After shis, she says, came "the tsunami of children and marriage" but her passion for drawing never left her. After the birth of her third child, "a bit exhausted, sleep-deprived and probably suffering from a bit of post natal depression", her husband bought her a collection of Moleskine notebooks and suggested it might help to start drawing again. It did, and in 2010 the Doodlemum blog was born. Most parents film or photograph their children growing up, however Angie Stevens has now drawn more than 900 daily cartoons, each one detailing the highs and lows of family life - from potty training to tantrums, school to holidays. There are moments of tender affection and her children"s impressions of the world around them. "Jam tarts are like a little sea of jam in a world of pastry" is just one. Each night she puts a new illustration online about her family"s day, a tender and loving portrait for the family album.