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…

  • What other people think shouldn’t matter, but…

    I write and illustrate books because I wouldn’t be able to get through a day, week, month or year with all these story ideas rattling around my brain. Luckily, my books and the workshops I provide because of them seem to be a big hit. Here are just a small selection of comments from people…

  • Been there, done that, bought a sweatshirt.

    I have been writing for decades, with words coming easily. When I first started I naïvely assumed that I would get a publisher and become famous immediately. For years I had people telling me that the things I’d written down and the stories I told at the drop of a hat were worthy of recognition…

  • Hardly ever a spare moment!

    It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for WordPress and the simple reason is, I’ve been too busy. As well as writing and illustrating my latest book AAAAALPACAS! I have been… • researching endangered species with help from the WWF • planning two other stories • waiting for responses from a publishing house and…

  • When illustrations go right!

    It’s not often that I finish an illustration and think that it looks as it should, but my latest creations are as close to the vision I had in my mind as they can be. Which is quite miraculous to say the least. I’m not a natural artist, very far from it. My imagination comes…

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