Edward Picot: Personal Website
Welcome to my website! Please subscribe to me! Just send an email with 'Subscribe' in the subject-line to edward at edwardpicot.com - or you can click here to fill out the subscription-form on my blog. I have an Etsy online shop for picture-books and cards at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/EdwardPicotBooksnArt. You can also find me on Instagram - www.instagram.com/edward_picot/ - Facebook - www.facebook.com/edward.picot - and Twitter - www.twitter.com/Dr_Hairy.
If you're interested in new media writing, you might also like to visit The Hyperliterature Exchange, a reviews site I ran for some years (2002-11).
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, an animated, interactive version of Wallace Stevens' famous modernist poem. Originally built in 2007 using Macromedia Flash, but re-made using video transcriptions of the original animations in 2021. |
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The Goose Money Box, May 2020 - Martha is saving up to buy herself a puppy. She asks for help from a goblin, who gives her a magical goose money box. But when she puts in money, it flies out of the window! | ![]() |
The Christmas Robins, January 2020 - a story about three robins who go in search of Christmas, co-created by myself and Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis. |
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I'm a Parsnip!, January 2020 - a light-hearted look at the transgender experience, telling the story of Penny the Carrot, who comes to the realization that actually she's a parsnip. There's also a short video based on the book on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Y5G-b6xb-Ps. |
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The Cake Maker of Transylvania, September 2019 - a ghoulish love story, for slightly older children and adults, by myself and Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis, about a vampire cake maker who bakes women's hearts into his cakes to make them tastier. |
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Pilchards, November 2018 - a funny picture-book about teasing, for children aged four and up, by myself and my lovely friend Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis. Now available from Amazon. |
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The Doubter's Mysteries, a cycle of sceptical Mystery Plays (plays based on Bible stories), 2018-19. This is now also available as a book from Amazon. |
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Dr Hairy in: Croonervirus (2020):
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The Stream: four tales and a Reflection, April 2020 . My new picture book: fifteen photographs, all processed in one way or another, accompanied by five short prose pieces, each 55 words long. Now available from Amazon. |
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Dr Hairy and the QCQ, the third series of Dr Hairy videos, first published in 2017. |
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The Calamitous Tale of Mr Punch, a puppet-animation based on the traditional Punch and Judy story, first published in 2016. |
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Dr Hairy, Series 2, the second series of Dr Hairy videos, first published in 2014. |
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Gilgamesh, a puppet-animation based on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, first published in 2013. |
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Job's Comforters, a poem-video based on the Biblical Book of Job, first published in 2013. |
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And, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, abridged by the unusual method of leaving out all the important bits (2011). |
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London Churches, fiction/prose-poetry and pictures, based on a number of visits I made to churches in the City of London (2009-11). |
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Dr Hairy, series 1, the first series of satirical puppet-videos about a fictional GP struggling to cope with life in the NHS (2010-11). |
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The Puzzle Box, a magic-and-mystery story for children, with interactive elements (2008-9). |
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Frog-o-Mighty, an animation in three parts, based on a game I played with my daughter Rachel using the ornaments on our living-room window-sill (2006). Two young chicks become embroiled in the machinations of an evil frog and his penguin sidekick. |
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An Unimportant Story, a non-linear story in four parts (2006). A father gets his daughter ready for school. The daughter invents a tale about a dragon and a goose. The mother fantasises about attracting other men, and worries that she might have cancer. An old man who lives across the road reminisces about someone he met in the British Library. |
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Banana Story, short animation (in Flash) based on an idea from my daughter Rachel (2005). A banana reads in the newspaper, to his horror, that monkeys eat bananas; and he sets off to find out for himself whether it's true. |
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Chicks, short animation (in Flash) based on another idea from my daughter Rachel (2005). A Welsh choir of chicks has its rehearsal disrupted by Big Chick's determination to sing a solo. |
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Linesland, short animation (in Flash) based on yet another idea from my daughter Rachel (2004). A nice game of noughts-and-crosses is disturbed by the unwelcome arrival of a Scribble Monster. |
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Flower Story, a story for children with pictures and animations (2003). A little girl gets turned into a flower by a wicked cat-lady. |