It is rare to hear from cover designers in children's literature, especially on blogs, and even less usual for an author to interview the cover designer. Yet this Q&A session by author Tamsin Mori and cover designer David Dean mak ...
Blog Tour: My Family And Other Romans by Marie Basting
Article by author Marie Basting LARPe Diem! The idea for My Family and Other Romans came to me in a dream. Red caped legionaries, glowing amber as they boarded a gleaming silver bullet train. It was too good a story seed not ...
Blog Tour: Faber Book of Bedtime Stories – spotlight on Fairygodmothers Don’t Exist by Ayesha Braganza
Q&A with Ayesha Braganza Tell us about your storyMy story is called Fairy Godmothers Don’t Exist. It is a riotous tale with wands, wishes and footballs. It is all about Naz and his hopeless Fairy Godmother who turns up at school and t ...
Blog Tour: Imagine! by Patricia Forde
Picture Books for Anxious Children - Patricia Forde Childhood is not all it’s cracked up to be. As adults, we like to romanticise these ‘best days of your life’, but sometimes we fail to acknowledge that childhood is often a pl ...
The Cities Of Taylor And Rose – Venice by Katherine Woodfine (blog tour)
Ciao Venezia! With the final book, Nightfall in New York, being published on 8th July, it’s time to revisit the previous books in the Taylor & Rose Secret Agents series — including third book, Villains in Venice. ...
Guest Post by Emmy Levels Up author Helen Harvey
Writing about technology in children's books Technology is part of our lives. It’s so much a part of our lives that it’s increasingly hard to imagine life without it. I get chills at the idea of running late and not being able to just tex ...
Belonging Street by Mandy Coe – Children’s Books North Autumn Highlights
Welcome to Children's Books North's Autumn Highlights - celebrating new books from CBN members with a tour of Northern and Scottish book blogs. Children’s Books North aims to connect children's book professionals living in the North We ...
The Great Revolt by Paul Dowswell. Author post. (Blog tour)
Six things I like about Tilda Rolfe Paul Dowswell Tilda is a 14 year old peasant girl from the village of Aylesford in Kent. In 1381 she finds herself front and centre in the great upheaval known as The Peasants’ Revolt. Traveling to London s ...
Villains in Venice by Katherine Woodfine. Author Q&A and review (Blog Tour)
Note: Contains spoilers about the ending of Spies in St Petersburg. Review 1912.Three years on from the mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow. Three months since Sophie and Lil returned from St Petersburg to shocking news about their friend ...
The Wonder Tree by Teresa Heapy and Izzy Burton (Blog Tour)
One morning Little Owl wakes in his tree as normal, but something is different. The leaves are falling. Little Owl has lots of questions. He wakes his mummy up, and Mummy Owl answers his questions as best she can with tales and stories. She explains ...