What is Lennox Dean (1) – Lennox Dean: Living the Dream by Rebecca Patterson about?

The launch of a hilarious new highly illustrated diary-format fiction series, from award-winning author-illustrator Rebecca Patterson!

Lennox Dean and his best friend Idris dream of being cooler, richer and more popular, and they have plans to make it happen! When their teacher sets a diary-writing assignment, they grab the chance to impress their classmates by making their lives seem WAY more exciting than they really are. But things spiral out of control when they accidentally invite everyone to the coolest party EVER. How are they going to make it happen in real life and avoid total embarrassment – by next weekend???

The first book in a brand new, highly illustrated diary-format series from Rebecca Patterson, the award-winning author-illustrator of My Big Shouting Day, Lennox Dean: Living the Dream is hilarious, relatable and brilliantly readable, with a unique, joyously funny voice and an incredibly distinctive visual style. A celebration of friendship, families and the messiness of ordinary life, it’s perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Loki, and Tom Gates.

About the Author

Rebecca Patterson grew up in Bolton and initially studied fashion at the Polytechnic of East London, followed by the Royal College of Art.

Never entirely comfortable in the world of fashion she sent manuscripts and illustrations to publishers since her teens and retrained in children’s book illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge when her children were at school.

She has now written and illustrated children’s books for over a decade, winning the Roald Dahl Funny prize in 2012 for My Big Shouting Day.

Her work draws on her own and her children’s childhoods and she has also worked part time as teaching assistant in a local primary school where she honed her “Scary Witch” and “Deranged Robot” playground routines to riot-inducing levels of over-excitement.