The work of Kim Lewis has resulted in the exhibition Over the Hills and Far Away – Tales from a Northumbrian Farm, organised by Seven Stories, The Centre for Children’s Books based in Newcastle upon Tyne. The exhibition started life at the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead in 2003. It then went to South Shields Museum and Art Gallery in 2004, the Museum of Hartlepool in 2005, and has been at Dewsbury Museum, West Yorkshire, for summer 2005.

Visitors to the exhibition are able to step into a ‘farmyard’, explore the farm year with Kim’s sheepdog, Floss, and try their hand at being an author and illustrator in a recreation of Kim’s studio. The exhibition also shows how Kim creates her picture books using storyboards, photographs and sketchbooks to turn her family’s farm, along with the animals, people and places she knows so well into the pictures and stories we love.

Seven Stories also organised the Over the Hills and Far Away Roadshow, a travelling book playground for young children and their families which toured schools and village halls in North East England during 2003, bringing Kim’s books to life through storytelling, games and creative activities.