
Notts Children’s Literature Picnic 2024
When I first started working as a children’s author twenty five years ago, I only knew of one other person in my home county of Nottinghamshire who also worked in

When I first started working as a children’s author twenty five years ago, I only knew of one other person in my home county of Nottinghamshire who also worked in

Yesterday my co-author Adam Smith and I had a book launch for our latest non-fiction picture book The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers, illustrated by Stieven Van der Poorten and published by UCLan

Last August I wrote a blog post about the UK’s first ever free public lending library for children, which opened in 1882 on Shakespeare Street in Nottingham. At the end of
The Transformation of T. rex posted on 17 August 2023
MONSTER MAKEOVERS • New UK & US Picture Book posted on 01 October 2025
THE SANTA TRAP in Schools posted on 01 December 2022
NUMBER TRAIN • New UK Novelty Book posted on 01 August 2024
SANTA SABOTEURS: Download and play a festive version of the WEREWOLF card game. posted on 16 December 2022
25 Years of BRINGING DOWN THE MOON posted on 02 October 2026
THE CONJUROR’S COOKBOOK• New Paperback Editions posted on 04 April 2022
CHRISTMAS STREET • New US Edition posted on 04 October 2022Dispatch & Delivery
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