Gwen Lowe works as a public health doctor in Cardiff, which is a bit like being a medical detective. Previously, she has worked as a hospital doctor and a GP, as well as a hotel washer-upper, a restaurant table cleaner and a postwoman. Her debut novel, Alice Dent and the Incredible Germs, is a quirky story…
COSTA Children’s Book Award-winner Katherine Rundell, two daring gorillas … and a sausage inspector are all shortlisted for the Children’s Book Award 2018 – chosen and voted for entirely by children. The Children’s Book Award 2018 shortlist has been announced. Among those shortlisted are this year’s COSTA Children’s Book Award winner Katherine Rundell and previously…
14th February 2018 marks the 7th International Book Giving Day. It’s a chance to get books into the hands of as many children as possible. The run up to the day itself has, this year, been an absolute whirlwind of bookish love. Children’s illustrator Elys Dolan designed the official poster for 2018. It is heart…
“Be careful when you throw something bad inside your black hole. You may find you’ve gotten rid of the good as well.” This is without doubt one of the most wonderful middle grade books I’ve read for a long time. Stella Rodriguez, a space mad eleven-year-old, is followed home one day by a black hole.…
Juliette Forrest’s debut middle grade novel, Twister is just about to hit the shelves. With a firecracker of a heroine who sees the world in her own unique way, it’s quite the adventure. Twister’s faithful friend in the story is Point – her loyal pet dog – is inspired by Juliette’s own dog Vince. Here…
Not for the fainthearted The Ice Sea Pirates by Frida Nilsson is a chilly tale with a warm heart published by Gecko Press. It is set amongst the snowy skerries in the Ice Sea where legend has it that the evil pirate, Whitehead, scours the islands and steals children to work in his diamond mine.…
Sky Song from Abi Elphinstone is a beautifully rendered, magical adventure featuring the quietly confident Eska, and her initially reluctant side kick Flint. And let’s not forget the eagle – oh the eagle!! Step into the snowy kingdom of Erkenwald. It used to be full of tribes who talked, helped and supported one another. Now.…
Based on actual events in Anne Green’s life, Mary Hooper’s Newes from the Dead, is a fantastic, enthralling upper-MG / YA book based in and around 17th Century Oxford. It’s the grizzly tale of how one young woman came to survive the hangman’s noose. Told from two points-of-view – Anne herself and a young scholar…
Award winning author Dan Smith, creator of Below Zero – a fresh and exciting no-holds-barred thriller – pops into My Book Corner to answer tackle our questions, including our infamous Just For Fun section. Tell us about you in 25 words or less. Growing up, the only thing I wanted to be was Han Solo. Now…
The lovely Frida Nilsson, Swedish author of The Ice Sea Pirates, a classic children’s adventure of icy seas and cold-blooded pirates, wolves, mermaids is stepping into My Book Corner. Here she tackles our questions, including our infamous Just for Fun section. Tell us about you in 25 words or less. I am a person that is completely…
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban is a beautiful little book is written with such brevity and precise wording that, on occasions, it’s hard to believe a writer could be so ruthless with their words. But, because Lois has been, it makes the story of Manami – a Japanese-American prisoner of war – all the…
The Island At The End of Everything is the latest novel from Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Ami lives with her mother on an island no one ever wants to visit. They say once you go there, you never leave. When the government decides to turn the island into a colony to stop the spread of leprosy,…
The Light Jar is Lisa Thompson’s second novel, the first being the incredibly popular The Goldfish Boy. Meet Nate. In the middle of the night, he and his mum, leave home. Suddenly. Bags packed… without telling Gary, mum’s boyfriend. Gary must never know where they are going. Nate and his mum arrive at a tumble…
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, a classic American children’s book, came as a recommendation from a good friend in California. It’s a book written during the 1950s and is about a much simpler time and way of living a rural life. And this “roam amongst the forests” life is led by the…
Whilst Vashti Hardy’s debut novel, Brightstorm, gets ready to launch we’ve invited her to My Book Corner to tackle our questions… Tell us about you in 25 words or less. I’m quite smiley, optimistic, a little clumsy, and probably live 50% in my imagination. I don’t give up easily (my husband says tenacious!). How would…
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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…