Today I am really pleased to feature a book which I think really is super in many ways and this book is Electrigirl by Jo Cotterill and Cathy Brett. We are always after engaging middle grade fiction; well, you don’t get much more engaging than that! When mobile phone company CyberSky set up new offices …
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National Non-Fiction November: a Guest Blog by Richard Wilkinson
November is the month when the Federation of Children’s Book Groups celebrates non-fiction. To celebrate, I am focusing on Big Picture Press’ superb large format Welcome to the Museum series. The series comprises at the moment of three books, Animalium, Historium and Story of Life. In the new age of the highly illustrated non-fiction book, these …
Goodbye Stranger
Rebecca Stead (Andersen Press) At age 8, Bridge was involved in a serious accident where she nearly died. Now she often feels a bit of an oddball, and despite sticking together through thick and thin, promising never to fight, she and her friends Tab and Emily are finding it harder and harder to keep that …
Do you want to be a fashion designer?
I have a budding fashion designer at home, and she loves any sort of activity book to do with clothes and fashion. So she was chuffed to find out that Thames & Hudson were publishing two very stylish fashion activity books, one on designing clothes, one on sewing them the latter created and designed by Louise …
Warning Cry: a review, and a guest post by illustrator Chellie Carroll
Kris Humphrey, with artwork by Chellie Carroll (Stripes) Nara is a Whisperer, a Guardian of the Wild. Her companion is a leopard called Flame and when Nara receives a message from the Palace that the kingdom of Meridina about the growing dangers brought by the shape-shifting Narlaw, they both take the journey north from the family …
Looking Glass Girl
Cathy Cassidy Cover illustration and artwork by Erin Keen (Puffin) Alice, Yaz and Elaine have always been best friends. Until the end of year 6, when Alice is chosen to be the lead in the school production of Alice in Wonderland, and consequently also gets offered a place in a drama group. She is also …
BLOG TOUR: Egmont’s 9+ Readers
“Middle-grade fiction” as it is called in the USA, or 9-12 fiction as we tend to call it here still gets little press coverage, which is why I was so pleased to be invited to join Egmont’s 9+ authors blog tour. So today I am delighted to welcome Sophia McDougall, Jason Rohan, Jane Hardstaff and Jamie …
