Presenting the Piggles
The Piggles are Squiggle, his twin sister Wriggle and their baby brother Giggle (who is never without his toy pig, Likkle Piggle), who live in the village of Pigglemere, in the English Lake District. They were created by Alan Dart and Malcolm Bird and first appeared as toys designed by Alan in Woman's Weekly magazine. The Piggles are now trademarked.
The Piggles have just opened an online store where you can choose greeting cards, personalise the inside text and have them sent anywhere in the world. It's at www.GCUniverse.com/thepiggles
ALAN DART has designed knitwear and crafts for many magazines, and demonstrated crafts for children on television series for TV am and Channel Four. He was the resident toy designer for Woman's Weekly magazine for 17 years. His knitted toys appear regularly in Simply Knitting magazine and his toy patterns are available as pdf downloads from his website. (www.alandart.co.uk)
MALCOLM BIRD's illustrations have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and on greetings cards. His current cards are published by Arty Corner, (www.artycorner.co.uk). and print on demand cards are available (www.GCUniverse.com/ArtyCorner). In addition, he's written and illustrated several comic strips, and his book titles include The Witch's Handbook and The School in Murky Wood. He illustrated Lynda Lee-Potter's column in the Daily Mail for 25 years. His latest comic strip, In Stitches, appears each month in Simply Knitting magazine. (www.malcolm-bird.co.uk)
Alan and Malcolm have also worked together on the series of books The Christmas Handbook, The Magic Handbook and The Party Handbook.
To find out more, please contact them by email.
The latest information is always on the Piggles page at www.malcolm-bird.co.uk and there are four short animations on Youtube that can be accessed through it.
Piggles characters, names and all related elements © 2011 Alan Dart and Malcolm Bird
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