Bologna Book Fair!

If you ever get the chance to go to the Bologna Children’s Book fair, in Italy, then grab it with all your hands and all your feet! Not only is Bologna a very lovely city but the annual book fair is a very special event. Imagine a huge building full of people who love books, writers, and … Continue reading →

A goodbye story

Once I knew a girl who was haunted by wolves. They came for her in her dreams and in her awakes They leapt out at her in the supermarket from behind boxes of cereal and other produce. They didn’t care where and had no decorum. Porridge or beans, it was all the same to them. … Continue reading →

A Monstrous Call?

This week along with many (many) other people, I blubbed, sniffed, and leaked my way through the film version of A Monster Calls. The film is adapted from the book by Patrick Ness (he also did the screenplay) which was inspired by an original idea by another Carnegie Medal winner,  Sioban Dowd. Sioban didn’t live long enough to … Continue reading →

Silent Books by Helen Limon

If you have never heard of IBBY, do you mind if I suggest you look them up? They are active in most countries and they are brilliant. Very brilliant is IBBY Italy, and most particularly the amazing Deborah Soria who is the driving force behind the IBBY children’s library camps on the tiny Italian island … Continue reading →

H’m, so here’s a thing…by Helen Limon

I am working on a book just now that has lots of rather dark and alarming little stories embedded in it – a girl with a frozen crow as a playmate, a girl who has a helpful but uninvited spider lodging in her ear, a girl who listens to the past, that sort of thing. … Continue reading →

Don’t believe a word!

Hello and thank you for inviting me to be a guest on your lovely blog! As well as writing books, I do research about what made-up people inside books  can tell us about not made-up people outside books. I thought you might like to know a bit more about me so…. Because I DIDN’T have an ‘accident’ on the … Continue reading →