Henry has left the studio. The Adventures of Henry is on sale.

This one has been living on our table for a long time. Pencil shavings. Colour tests. Arguments about whether a particular animal was cheeky enough. Today we can finally say it: The Adventures of Henry: The Many Ways to Be has gone through production, and you can buy it on the website.

Henry Is lucys Nephew. She decided a book needed to be made of him, she draws him, and he has the particular gift of making a page feel like a friend sat down beside you. In this first adventure he discovers something simple and rather lovely — that there are as many ways to be as there are friends to meet. It is gentle, warm, and built for reading aloud. Thirty-two pages of the kind of children's book we always wanted to put into someone's hands.

Paperback, from £9.99, available now from the shop.

If you have a small person in your life — or you are the sort of adult who still judges a book by whether you would have loved it at six — this is the one to start with. We made it the S and F way: story and pictures from the first sketch.

More Henry is already padding about in the studio. The Cheeky Seagull is waiting in the wings. But today belongs to this one.

Henry is on the shelf. We hope he ends up on yours.

— Lucy and Karl