


Percy also appeared in his own animated television series in the late 1990s, Percy the Park Keeper, with Jim Broadbent voicing the eponymous character. The Percy book After the Storm has been adapted for the theatre. The books were re-released in 2019 for the 30th anniversary of publication. Believed to have been inspired by a park warden who worked at Raphael Park in Romford, a statue of the character was installed in the same park in 2013. His works as sole author illustrator include several books featuring the character Percy the Park Keeper, the first of which, One Snowy Night, was published in 1989. In 19, in the early days of breakfast television in the UK, he appeared as a regular presenter on Good Morning Britain, illustrating and telling stories on air in a children's segment called Rub-a-Dub-Tub. Their published collaborations include Just Like Jasper, Jasper's Beanstalk, The Sports Day, The Nativity Play, and Wonderful Earth. This led to a partnership with long-standing friend and children's writer and illustrator Mick Inkpen. Career īutterworth became a freelance graphic designer in the late 1960s. After his education at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, Butterworth left home to work as an apprentice typographical designer with the National Children's Home before working at Crosby Fletcher Forbes (the forerunner of design agency Pentagram). Early life īorn in Kingsbury in North London, from the age of 2, Butterworth grew up in a sweet shop in Romford. In the 1980s, he was a presenter on ITV children's programme Rub-a-Dub-Tub. His Q Pootle 5 books were adapted by the BBC and broadcast on CBeebies, the channel for young children, in 2013. His Percy the Park Keeper books became an animated television series of the same name starring Jim Broadbent. His picture book The Whisperer won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2005. Released just weeks after A Girl Can Mack, Naughty or Nice did not chart.Nick Butterworth (born ) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. Bailon and Williams would later go on to record as The Cheetah Girls. The mature content and hip-hop sound of the album would heavily contrast the R&B and pop sound of 3LW's debut album.

Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams would later re-record the song with Sabrina Bryan as the Cheetah Girls for the 2007 compilation, Disney Channel Holiday.ĭespite being a Christmas album, some of the songs on Naughty or Nice feature more mature content similar to that of A Girl Can Mack, and the album is largely hip-hop influenced. The album features nine original songs with Christmas-themed lyrics and a cover of the Christmas classic " Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas". The album was recorded without Naturi Naughton who had recently left the group. Naughty or Nice is a Christmas album, as well as the third and final studio album by American girl group 3LW, released in 2002.
