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…

  • First, the idea…

    Usually, a story idea bursts into my brain, often in the moments before I go to sleep, and I have to get my phone out to make a ‘sticky note’ of the idea. When I get the kiddies to bed the following evening, I then take the time to flesh out the idea and see…

  • Life in Lockdown 2020

    In the middle of March my mom was given a diagnosis of ‘definitely coronavirus’ by a 111 operator. She wasn’t offered a test to prove this diagnosis, she was told to keep hydrated, take painkillers and get back in touch if her symptoms got worse. She was very ill, which isn’t like my mom at…

  • Look, a new book!

    Meet my latest characters, the wonderful animals from my soon to be published book, AAAAALPACAS! You may have seen them before if you follow me on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, as I have been sketching/drawing/painting them for what seems like forever. I’ve done them in pencil, watercolour and on my drawing tablet and for ages…

  • Tonight I’m going to work like it’s 2020.

    Well folks, we’re halfway through the first month of 2020, how is everyone finding it? I can sum it up in one word…busy! Don’t get me wrong, I am most definitely not complaining, as I cannot stand to be bored, so busy is good. Flower Guard Books seems to have taken off since the start…

  • A previous existence.

    Many years ago when my ten year old was just a nipper, a friend and I dabbled in the odd bit of craft. Nothing too serious, just a craft fair here and there, we could totally handle it. Then, before we knew it, we were addicted and so we created a little thing called Small…

  • S’mae, sut wyt ti?

    My other half is Welsh, born and bred in Wrexham, North Wales. For a number of years I have said that I would love to learn Welsh, but you know how it goes, there are never enough hours in the day. Until recently. Over the last 153 days (as of today, 12/11/19), I have completed…

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