We’re HUGE fans of Maisie Chan’s Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths here at My Book Corner, and so Sarah Broadley jumped at the opportunity to ask her some GREAT questions. The result is a fascinating interview. Grab a cuppa. You’re going to love this… 1. Danny and Nai Nai are the main characters in…
The Caravan at the Edge of Doom is hitting the shelves, we LOVED it! So we asked Jim Beckett to pop into My Book Corner to tell us how teaching has influenced his writing… Like many children’s books, The Caravan at the Edge of Doom is set during the school holidays. I suspect it’s no…
Yippee! The next picture book in this hilarious series is coming out! You Can’t Take An Elephant on Holiday from Patricia Cleveland-Peck and David Tazzyman. We know how important funny books are so, we invited Patricia to MyBookCorner, to pick out her top 5 funny picture books. Here they are… 1. Green Eggs and Ham…
Super excited that Patience Agbabi’s second novel in the Leap Cycle series, The Time-Thief, is flying on to the shelves. It’s a real treat! The wonderful, energetic Elle is back – with her gift for time-travel, she’s leaping back to a London that’s very different from today. The result is a thrilling adventure, rich in…
Barbara Henderson’s latest novel, The Chessmen Thief, is about to hit the shelves. Full of intriguing characters, we couldn’t resist picking her brain and asking all about… creating characters. I had known for some time that I wanted to write a Viking story. I had known for around a year that I might want to…
John Condon has been writing picture book stories for six years. Before that he wrote screenplays and made short movies, a couple of which you can still find floating around on the web. His first picture book, The Wondrous Dinosaurium, was published by Maverick Arts in 2018, and has been nominated for several awards (it…
Setsuko and the Song of the Sea by Fiona Barker, illustrated by Howard Gray and created in collaboration with Hideaki Matsuya, is hitting the shelves this Spring. So, Sarah Broadley found the ideal opportunity to intereview the three creators behind it. The result is a FASCINATING read. Grab a cuppa, and delve in… Depicting marine…
LOOK! who has popped into My Book Corner today. It’s the absolutely lovely Kate Foster. Kate writes children’s books about dogs and friendship and family! The fabulous PAWS will be jumping onto the shelves soon (NOW for our Australian readers! Lucky ducks!). So, of course, we waved our infamous questions under Kate’s nose… and she…
Hannah Foley lives in Devon in a little red brick terrace house with her children. She loves going for adventures in the countryside and by the sea in all the exact same places she used to go adventuring as a kid. Her debut novel The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle won the Kelpies Prize in…
Grab a cuppa and enjoy our latest Guest Post, Top Tips for Budding Authors by Andy Shepherd, author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series. The Boy Who Sang With Dragons, flew out on 7th January 2021. I devoured it! What a warm, heart-felt ending to this endearing series. I love the sense of friendship…
Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American author, and was featured in Oprah Magazine in 2017 as a woman making a difference in her community. She resides in Houston, TX with her husband and children. Her middle grade novel, A Thousand Questions, a gorgeous middle grade story about two girls navigating a strange summer of change for each…
Much of Katharine Orton’s writing is inspired by folklore, fairy tales and ghost stories. In her latest novel, Glassheart, she’s combined this with the aftermath of World War Two. Here, she explains to MyBookCorner how war stories influenced the writing of Glassheart… I was chatting to a member of my extended family one day when…
My Book Corner reviewer and good friend Leisa Stewart-Sharpe publishes her first book this week, and what a way to launch a career, by reimagining blockbuster nature series Blue Planet II for a whole new generation. And. Did you spot who’s penned the foreword? Yep, it’s non-other than Sir David Attenborough himself – what a…
Promoting a book is no walk in the park. It’s no picnic. It’s no…3rd example of an outdoor-based relaxing activity. It’s hard work, is what I’m saying. If you’re with a big publisher, they’ll take care of that side of things for you. They’ll have a publicist for that. Maybe a marketing department. There’ll be…
A huge MyBookCorner welcome to Rachel Burge. She’s author of The Twisted Tree, a YA ghost story set in Norway. The sequel, The Crooked Mask, is out on Kindle now and available in paperback on 21 January, 2021. Sarah Broadley interviews her here… What inspired you to base your novels on Norse mythology? I’ve always…
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Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…