Newly appointed children's laureate Chris Riddell wants to encourage 'drawing every day'

Chris Riddell, who has recently been appointed as UK's new children's laureate, wants to encourage drawing every day.

The 53-year-old, who has taken over from Malorie Blackman, said that he was interested in illustration in all its forms, not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance, as a way of drawing people into books and stories, the BBC has reported.

The creator of the Goth Girl series was officially appointed at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) in London.

The ninth laureate Riddell also mentioned that he planned to put "visual literacy" at the heart of his term of office, which runs until 2017.

The political cartoonist intends to keep an online visual diary of his time in the role, the Laureate's Log, and encourages families to keep their own visual diaries.