What a treat to have author Hannah Foley on the blog today, generously sharing her experience of writing the dual timeline in her latest book – The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair. The writers among us will be heartened to hear that, while stories and their structures don’t always come easily, an unexpected image…
How the daily walk in the covid months not only helped me in those challenging months – but also gave me the idea for the Wildsmith series. Do you remember what you were doing in the summer of 2020? I…
From the very beginning of the novel, I was able to relax into Zillah Bethell’s confident storytelling, safe in the knowledge an interesting story was going to unfold – and I was not disappointed. I loved the developing friendship between a two girl who, on the surface, appear very different. One is a nameless…
Ginika is furious. Her parents have sent her to live with her grandparents in their boarding house by the sea and she doesn’t want to go. Summer holidays are meant to be for having fun! A visit to the beach changes her life forever when she comes face to face with Peri, a boy who…
Freedom. Fairness. Family. Three powerful things that centre around Bera’s life and how she sees her place in this sometimes dangerous world she calls home. The strong need to be the woman she wants to be and life the life she wants to live are quickly overshadowed by her Valla duty when she discovers that…
Morag Hood is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator from Edinburgh. Her colourful and humorous books have been translated into several languages and distributed by Scottish Book Trust to thousands of pupils in Scotland. She loves playing with the relationship between text and image to create unexpected and funny results. Words about…
What could a boy and an alien chicken from planet Nurgle-7 possibly have in common? Quite a lot as it turns out. Stuck on a stinky farm, alone and far from home, Bertie and Nugget’s chance encounter has earth-shattering repercussions; unless Bertie can help Nugget find the world’s greatest resource, the whole planet will be…
Otto lives an unconventional life with his inventor uncle, Delderfield Macauley. Never wandering far from home he spends a lot of his time with all the mechanical animals his uncle makes – parrots, monkeys, flamingos and so many more. Florence tries her best to stay invisible. All she ever wants to do is draw but…
Thrilled to be sharing this Q&A with author Lucy Ann Unwin for Day 4 of The Octopus, Dadu and Me blog tour. This book was a very emotional read for me as Sashi’s close relationship with her Dadu, the slow decline of a beloved granparent, and the sharing of a different culture is something that is…
Checkpoints, soldiers and questions about who he is and what he’s doing, are unfortunately all part of Adam’s daily grind. Making deliveries for his father’s shop across an alternative London, he often finds himself stepping up to the strictly controlled entrance and exist boundaries within the city, with fear in his heart. Those from the…
Alfie Wright, also known as Alfie Wrong to his bullying classmates, is an instantly endearing character who will tug at your heartstrings. A so-called outsider with a less-than-sympathetic mother, Alfie welcomes the wartime evacuation that sees him billeted to a farm in rural Devon. Indeed, under “Auntie” Bell’s motherly wing, Alfie flourishes, despite getting…
When Emba hears a thump from outside, a dragon is the last thing she expects to find. Convinced it’s just her imagination running wild, her friend Fred has no option to tell her truth and her world will never be the same again. A baby girl with yellow eyes and scaly limbs – born from…
With Christmas around the corner, I wanted to share some recently published gift books that would make wonderful presents for a range of readers, and can be enjoyed all year round. Wild Animals of the World by Dieter Braun My two children ( 6 & 9) loved paging through this gorgeous hardback with its…
Feeling very lucky to have the wonderful Katharine Orton on the blog today, sharing a piece she has written about the theme of nature and the natural world in her latest novel, Mountainfell. The majestic mountain in this magical story is as much a character as misfit-protagonist Erskin. And the journey towards its summit is…
After seven years at boarding school where the food is not much better than gloop and the other girls constantly go out of their way to be mean to her, Cassie Morgan runs away into the night. Searching for her mother she enters a world of magic as she discovers her true identity in the…
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Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
His books are a great way help kids read while soaking up important Science concepts without even knowing it. Ironically,…
Ooh, this sounds fantastic!