Today we’re over the moon to welcome author Abi Elphinstone to My Book Corner Q&A section. In the Altai Mountains, I ate larch sap (one of the oldest forms of chewing gum), drank fermented horse milk (like sipping liquid stilton infused with a hint of unwashed dog) and camped beneath ice-bright stars but what I…
Illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill The night was still and starlit – the kind of night that looked built for stories. It should have been a dream holiday, a camping trip in the Mongolian Altai Mountains but for ten-year-old Emmy it turns into the type of adventure she’s not convinced she’ll make it home from. …
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