Flower Guard Books

Welcome to the online home of work created by Andi Dawson. Here you’ll find a world of colour and imagination, where cute characters fill the page and show off the wonderful diversity of everyday life.

Andi’s illustrations are carefully created to engage even the youngest viewer . Her writing focuses on friendship, problem solving and fun and the majority of her books are written in rhyme to encourage a love of language and promote early reading for pleasure.

Welcome to my brain I suppose…sorry it’s a bit of a mess, but there’s a lot going on…

  • Which craft…?

    In December 2025 I discovered That Glasgow Witch on Instagram and liked some of her posts about manifesting intentions, and so I committed 13 intentions for 2026 to paper and for 12 nights I sent an intention into the ether by setting it alight. I had no idea which intention would be left, as I…

  • Can you see me? Hear me? Do you even know I’m here?

    I just typed that title, and as I did my brain immediately thought, that’s a good opener for a poem…I’ll save that for later. For now, I’m here because I feel the need to vent. I just posted a reel on Instagram with my weekly intentions, as I find that helps me keep focused as…

  • Video killed the radio star…

    …but it launched the Story Lady of Flower Guard Books, so it’s not all bad eh? No clue what I’m talking about? Well, years ago I set up a YouTube channel for Flower Guard Books, threw together some rather poor attempts at video using converted Powerpoints and hoped that they would go viral. They did…

  • In case you haven’t figured me out…

    I’m Andi, author, illustrator, artist and poet, as well as… …a mom of three very different, incredible children who require love and guidance navigating their neurospicy/neurotypical brains. I’m a partner to the same man for almost 18 years and we muddle through life together, with a rare child-free date day/night thrown in whenever there’s time…

  • It’s Monday and I’m child-free!

    I’m sat at my laptop, windows open, a cuppa in front of me and the sound of the birds tweeting in the garden, interrupted only by the whirr of the washing machine on a spin cycle and my fingers tapping the keyboard. BLISS! I adore my children and partner, and would walk through hell and…

  • A Stitch (or two) in Time!

    Over the last few weeks I’ve had the absolute pleasure of attending two Christmas craft fairs, one for the Hornsea section of the Women’s Institute and the other at Hornsea Nursery School. As well as taking my beloved children’s books which sold so well, I also took some beautifully crafted items made by me, my…

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