Scholastic Schools Live | Lollies Event Week | Humza Arshad and Aleksei Bitskoff

Humza Arshad and Aleksei Bitskoff, author and illustrator of Lollies ages 9-13 shortlisted book Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties, will be answering your questions and showing you how to draw characters from the book. Don’t forget a pencil and paper!

Please email your questions for Humza in advance to laughoutloud@scholastic.co.uk with the subject line ‘Lollies question – Humza Arshad’.

Humza Arshad is one of the UK’s most popular and important British Asian personalities. After graduating from Richmond Drama School, Arshad wrote, directed and edited an episode called Diary of a Badman. Over 90 million views of the series later, Humza became the first British YouTuber to have his own scripted comedy series on BBC Three in the mockumentary series Coconut. Equally important to Humza has been using his influence and comedy for greater purpose. In 2015, Humza partnered with the UK Counter Terrorism Unit and he is YouTube’s first ambassador for the Creators for Change campaign. Humza has spoken and shared the stage with the likes of Will Smith, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Kevin Hart and Whoopi Goldberg.

Born in Estonia, Aleksei Bitskoff was always a compulsive doodler and after an inspirational trip to Nepal where he discovered Buddhist meditation techniques he decided to study Illustration in the UK, attending LCC and Camberwell College of Arts. Aleksei’s finely detailed characters and imaginative worlds continue to fill his sketchbooks as well as adorn the covers and pages of many children’s fiction titles in the UK and USA. He illustrates the best-selling series Little Badman by Humza Arshad and Henry White and has created concept designs for an interactive play space at Discover Children’s Story Centre in London. He lives in Surrey with his young family.

Suitable for ages 9+. Please note that Aleksei Bitskoff’s section of the event will be pre-recorded.

Register with the password LAUGHOUTLOUD .