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: Bite Risk Caught Dead by S.J. Wills
Sel and the gang are back. Set five or six months after the events of Bite Risk, this sequel finds out what happens once the resiedents of Tremorglade have been liberated and the rest of the world has learned about the Rippers - those who turn in ...
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 ...
Review: A Whale Of A Time – A Funny Poem For Every Day Of The Year. Selected by Lou Peacock. Illustrated by Matt Hunt.
A Whale Of A Time is a weighty yet witty tome of poetry aimed at younger children. Editor Lou Peacock has selected the contents brilliantly for readers who may be encountering poetry for the first time. The volume follows on from other popular titles ...
Bunnies In A Sleigh by Philip Ardagh and Ben Mantle
It is Christmas Eve and all is going well in Santa's North Pole workshop. All is going well, that is, until some mischievous little bunnies fill the Elves with candy canes that make their tummies so full that they cannot move. This is exactly what th ...
The Nutcracker And The Mouse King’s Christmas Shenanigans by Alex T. Smith
The Mouse King has shenanigans planned. Greater, more terrible shenanigans than ever before. Shenanigans that might stop Christmas. It is up to Clara - with the help of her little brother Fritz and a Nutcracker named Walter - to save Christma ...
How Does Santa Go Down The Chimney? by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
How does Santa get down the chimney? Just how does he do it? Maybe he tightens his belt or gets kicked down by his reindeer. And what if there is no chimney at all? This book speculates over the biggest mystery of the Christmas season with hilari ...
Blog Tour: Postcards From Valhalla by Danny Weston
About the book: Postcards from Valhalla is a YA fantasy cum ghost story set in the Shetland Islands. It centres around Viggo, whose father went missing in Shetland in pursuit of all things Norse mythological. When Viggo's elder brother Magnus ...
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 ...