Ashwin Chacko – illustratör

*Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Children's Sports Book of the Year Award 2025*This empowering non-fiction guide from two time gold-medal-winning Paralympian and Strictly Come Dancing star Jonnie Peacock will help young people find their happiness, chase their dreams and be unstoppable!Whether it's sport, art, maths or just spending time with friends, this book will help young readers discover what it is they love and how they can harness this to achieve whatever they want in life. Written in collaboration with children’s mental health expert Laura Earnshaw, this empowering book is packed full of Jonnie’s own stories alongside practical tips, tricks and journaling opportunities, with inspiring chapters on:– Embracing uniqueness– Finding what you love– Making it happen– Mind-body connection– Stepping out of your comfort zone– Bouncing back from adversity– Working as a team– Passing on your knowledge to help othersThe world should be open to everyone, and everyone should be able to achieve their dreams if they have the right support. Jonnie's book takes young readers on a journey to get inspired, build confidence and learn that they can achieve anything, no matter their abilities.Children will learn that happiness is something that can be actively worked on and found with hard work, a good mindset, plenty of patience and a whole heap of determination! All things Jonnie brings into his daily life and practice, so he can be the athlete he is today.Complete with lively illustrations by Ashwin Chacko, this book will help readers embrace their passions, maximise their potential and be unstoppable!

*Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Children''s Sports Book of the Year Award 2025*This empowering non-fiction guide from two time gold-medal-winning Paralympian and Strictly Come Dancing star Jonnie Peacock will help young people find their happiness, chase their dreams and be unstoppable!Whether it''s sport, art, maths or just spending time with friends, this book will help young readers discover what it is they love and how they can harness this to achieve whatever they want in life. Written in collaboration with children''s mental health expert Laura Earnshaw, this empowering book is packed full of Jonnie''s own stories alongside practical tips, tricks and journaling opportunities, with inspiring chapters on:– Embracing uniqueness– Finding what you love– Making it happen– Mind-body connection– Stepping out of your comfort zone– Bouncing back from adversity– Working as a team– Passing on your knowledge to help othersThe world should be open to everyone, and everyone should be able to achieve their dreams if they have the right support. Jonnie''s book takes young readers on a journey to get inspired, build confidence and learn that they can achieve anything, no matter their abilities.Children will learn that happiness is something that can be actively worked on and found with hard work, a good mindset, plenty of patience and a whole heap of determination! All things Jonnie brings into his daily life and practice, so he can be the athlete he is today.Complete with lively illustrations by Ashwin Chacko, this book will help readers embrace their passions, maximise their potential and be unstoppable!

Irish sports legend Gordon D'Arcy and bestselling author Paul Howard have teamed up with children's illustrator Ashwin Chacko on this heart-pumping interactive picture book that puts young readers in the boots of a footballer competing for the championship cup, while teaching them the basic skills of the game along the way!It’s match day. Are you ready?Swing your legs high in the air! Do some high knees! Then face off against your opponents in the game for the ages. Slide on the floor to tackle, run into the box and weave past defenders to score that all important goal.This team are good, so it’s going to take everything you have to win the cup…

A fully illustrated collection of Irish poems, ranging from medieval classics to modern poems from old favourites to new voices in English and Irish, edited by Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko.Discover thoughtful, surprising and powerful poems in this collection - about love and skateboarding, about feeling lonely and making friends, about jellyfish, magic, school, snowdrops, monsters, blackbirds ... and lots, lots more.Curated with love by the acclaimed children's poet Lucinda Jacob and award-winning children's writer and bookseller Sarah Webb, this is a book to treasure now and always.Beloved Irish poets sit along old medieval poems and diverse contemporary voices, including Eavan Boland, Seamus, Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Paula Meehan, Thomas Kinsella, Frank O'Connor, Gabriel Rosenstock, Spike Milligan, Michael Longley, Aine Ni Ghlinn, Oscar Wilde, Pat Ingoldsby, Brendan Kennelly, Nikita Gill, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, Yeva Skalietska and Polina Cosgrave.

Irish rugby legend Gordon D'Arcy and bestselling author Paul Howard deliver a thrilling, interactive story that puts young readers at the center of a rugby final – while teaching them the basic skills of the game along the way.Let’s Play Rugby! encourages all kids to give rugby a go – in their bedrooms, living rooms and gardens. This book puts the young reader in the boots of a rugby player as they play in the big final!Jog on the spot! Do some star jumps! Then face off against your opponents in the game of your life.This fully illustrated picture book is one for children and grown-ups to tackle together.