You Choose
You Choose by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharatt – wonderful book and also the inspiration for a great game to keep children amused on walks.
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I Heart Bedtime by Clara Vulliamy
Our review (with very long video) of I Heart Bedtime by Clara Vulliamy
Creative Creatures blog tour (includes video)
Creative Creatures, by Donna Wilson – our stop in the blog tour, with a video of RoRo and LaLa doing Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Lunchtime by Rebecca Cobb: Blog tour: Dramatisation
Lunchtime by Rebecca Cobb is one of our favourite picture books and is coming out in paperback! We made a video dramatisation – well, four, actually!
Five Writing Tips, or How to Write a Great Short Story by Someone Who Never Has
Here are some writing tips from Jonathan Strahan, who edited Under My Hat, an excellent collection of witchy stories that we wrote about on Tuesday. So you want to write a short story? A great one? When I was first asked to provide a list of tips on how …
Show Your Fear!
This is a guest post from John Peace, author of The Calling. I opened my eyes with a sharp report reverberating through my dreams. My eyes were open in an almost total absence of light, with only the faintest outline of walls around me. Whatever that noise had been, my …
Interview with Jeyn Roberts
Jeyn Roberts has written a couple of awesome YA books, which we talked about on Tuesday. Dark Inside and Rage Within are post-apocalyptic novels, which race along, drawing you into a world of dark and evil, through the eyes of a cast of young characters fighting together to make sense …
Interview with Giles Paley-Phillips
Giles Paley-Phillips has written two monstrous picture books – which we talked about on Tuesday. Today he’s very kindly answered some questions about his writing. What made you want to write scary books for children? I grew up reading books by the Grimm brothers, Roald Dahl and Edward …
Halloween Book Week: Writing suspense and fear
Today is all about writing suspense and fear. Most fiction requires some suspense and often some fear, but of course some genres have a lot more of it than others – horror of course has bucketloads of both, while thrillers do too. I’ve mentioned already this week that I find …
Jaded with vampires
This is a Halloween Book Week guest post from Adele of Circus Queen. Earlier this year, my husband bought me a Kindle because, for someone who claims they like to read, I actually don’t read very much. Unfortunately, this coincided with us going through a rather skint period so, …
