Side Hustle/ Writing

Charlie Chimp's Curious Creatures

  • Ben & Shaun

An informative children's book about Charlie, a chimp, armed with a camera who loves to study the jungles more peculiar animals. The story follows Charlie, an inquisitive chimp armed with a camera who loves to study the jungles more peculiar animals. Our polaroid taking primate will lead you through the treetops, the rivers, even the darkest places in the jungle to show you the wonderful creatures that live there and the things that make them so unique. Charlie’s journey however has him wondering about his own special features and if in fact, he has any?

HOW DID THIS COME ABOUT?

Well, about a year ago Sam asked us to help him write a children's book using his peculiar creature illustrations. After creating a compelling character, finding facts, writing rhymes and discovering the all important moral of the story we had ourselves a book!
We then self published through Kickstarter.  We aimed to raise enough money to print our first run, a figure that we hit on the first day of the campaign, and over the course of the next 30 days doubled. This allowed us to print a larger run and print more cool additions, including real Polaroids of the characters.
Illustrator and Pal: Sam Peel
If you're interested check out the Website: http://charliechimps.co.uk/
http://charliechimps.co.uk/
https://www.benandshaun.com/
http://sampeel.co.uk/