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: Q&A with Diamond Jack author Anna Rainbow
About Diamond Jack: Your Magic Or Your Life by Anna Rainbow: While helping in Grandpa’s shop, Bramble discovers a strange scarlet mask. A tingling in her fingers tells her to try it on, but when she does she can’t take it off . . . And when she ...
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
When Christopher goes to stay with the grandfather he has never met before, he discovers that there is a portal to another world in the back garden. While the creatures in our world are dying due to a human-caused climate crisis, the creatures of the ...
The Midnight Switch by Samuel J. Halpin
A spooky old town called Barrow. The legendary Bogwitch who is said take one child every time the town floods in retaliation for an historical wrong. A secretive society that protects Barrow's heritage. Lewis finds himself chased by rooks as ...
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: Call Of The Titanic by Lindsay Galvin
April 1912. Clarty Clara is the baby of her large family who is known for causing trouble. She lives on a ranch but has always dreamed of adventures, like the kind had by her cousin Harold, or Harry, who is th5Marconi operator aboard HMS Carpathia. W ...
Review: The Tide Singer by Eloise Williams. Illustrated by August Ro.
1895 - Carregton Crow. Morwenna is the undertaker's child in a tiny community. She's used to rowing dead bodies out to the island cemetery, listening to local gossip and to the tales of the tide singers who supposedly create storms in order to drown ...
The Arctic Railway Assassin by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. Illustrated by Elisa Paganelli.
Hal and Uncle Nat are hitting the rails again. This time, their train is Arctic-bound. They are off to see the Northern Lights. On the way to catch their train they visit Uncle Nat's friend Morti, who has won the Nobel Prize for her work in targe ...
Spark by M.G. Leonard
The Twitchers are back with a new crime against nature to solve. When Jack rescues an injured cat, he learns that it has been shot and therefore that humans are responsible. He promises the cat's elderly owner that he will sol ...
Blog Tour: Polly Pecorino by Emma Chichester Clark
About: Polly Pecorino is an animal rescuer - she has been this way all her life. She's also able to talk to animals. Her Uncle Stan works at Happy Days Zoo and Polly spends lots of her time chatting to the zoo's inhabitants. Unfortunat ...