Horatio Clare took the Branford Boase Award last year (2016), for his impressive novel Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot. As the new winner for 2017 is soon to be announced, we reached out to Horatio Clare to find out what life has been like since winning the award. Huge congratulations on last year’s Branford Boase win. Describe…
Chitra Soundar and Frané Lessac have teamed up to produce the intriguing picture book, Pattan’s Pumpkin, an exciting, vibrant story from India. Here Chitra gives us a great insight in to how the picture book came to be… Pattan’s Pumpkin is proof that Googling is fun and I’m good at it. Long before social media became…
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