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.

Ramblings

  • Stevie the Shark

    The first incarnation of this delightful under the water tale of friendship, falling out and fixing things was a carefully created paper book…

  • The reason I write.

    Ever since I was small I’ve always loved a wide range of stories. I was a bit of a tomboy and didn’t really…

  • Can you see me? Hear me? Do you even know I’m here?

    I just typed that title, and as I did my brain immediately thought, that’s a good opener for a poem…I’ll save that for…

  • Video killed the radio star…

    …but it launched the Story Lady of Flower Guard Books, so it’s not all bad eh? No clue what I’m talking about? Well,…

  • In case you haven’t figured me out…

    I’m Andi, author, illustrator, artist and poet, as well as… …a mom of three very different, incredible children who require love and guidance…

  • It’s Monday and I’m child-free!

    I’m sat at my laptop, windows open, a cuppa in front of me and the sound of the birds tweeting in the garden,…

  • A Stitch (or two) in Time!

    Over the last few weeks I’ve had the absolute pleasure of attending two Christmas craft fairs, one for the Hornsea section of the…