Alfred doesn’t want to stay with his granny in her cottage beneath the cliffs but he has no choice now that his dad’s work will take him away for a while. He always feels as if he’s being watched when he’s there. Surrounded by dark woods, whispering trees and secrets that lurk in the shadows,…
With fishy smells, pungent pongs and frightful whiffs, Haarville’s not a place many people travel too – they’d need to find it first! Hidden in the murky mist that constantly surrounds its coastline and strangely missing from every seafarers map, a treacherous reef awaits any unfortunate souls who lose their bearings and find themselves on…
It’s 1888, 12 year-old John Nicol starts his first job on the construction site of the Forth Rail Bridge with a fear of heights. He takes a deep breath and embraces his new life away from the school playground and up the iron slopes of the brand new bridge. John’s life both on and off…
Karl Newson’s rhyming rhythm will carry you effortlessly to the top of a mountain and out to sea as bush baby searches for the best way to express his love – should he write a message? Buy a gift? Build a rocket? What about the animals around him – how might they do it? Never…
Eva Knight is the first of her kind – a Martianborn human. Based on the Mars colony she calls home, Eva can’t seem to stop getting herself and her friends into trouble. Her defiance against the protocols that keep her safe and her ability to infuriate everyone who comes near, is a talent she…
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…
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…
Sixteen year-old Charlie Frith is alive and well. However, spending time with the ghosts and ghouls he bumps into around the old streets of York, his every day life can be a living hell. Charlie is a seer which means ghosts either need his help or they want to eat him. Sometimes he doesn’t know…
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…
This graphic novel was immediately sequestered by my 9-year-old daughter and hoovered up in one sitting. And despite the strong thread of grief and loss running through the story, she would frequently call out to me to share the lines that had made her giggle! That is one of the most astonishing things about this…
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…
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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!