Mike Young is a scribbler. He has been doing it ever since he was a child, squirrelled away at family gatherings drawing the world around him and coming up with imaginary stories .As an adult, Mike fell in to a boring insurance job that just wasn't right for him. He still kept up the scribbling though and the big change came five years ago when he set up his illustrated family portrait business: Family Scribble. During Lockdown Mike wrote and illustrated his own book: Boketto, which drew on his love of Japanese culture. It was shorted listed for the Dpictus Unpublished Picture Book Awards 2025 in Bologna. That same year, a chance meeting in a local bookshop with Jess from Dottie publishing, led to Mike being asked to Illustrate a fantastic new story by a first time author - Milly Voice.Mike was so enamoured by the world of children's books he was Inspired to write another story. This time he drew on his experience as a kid hanging around with his grandad, who always had a silly saying or fantastical story to tell himself. Laugh To See A Pudding Crawl was picked up by Dottie Publishing in 2026 and the rest, as they say, is history.

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