'Blue Dog' will be published alongside the launch of the film next week and is a 'spellbinding story of a young boy and his dog adventuring through the outback'. A follow up to the best selling 'Red Dog', Alan's two-colour cover and inside illustrations are a departure from his usual, more colourful illustrations. He says "It is a style that I’d like to develop and is a mixture of pen & ink and Photoshop. It was a fun project to work on as I was given freedom to interpret the story as I liked."