Every year, thousands of Year 7&8 students in participating schools across England and Wales get the chance to get their hands on a FREE book! (FREE!! How much of a bargain is THAT?!?) It’s all thanks to Bookbuzz, which is run by literacy charity Book Trust. They carefully select 17 books to suit all reading…
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My eagle-eyed nephew spotted my name on telly on Saturday night… one of a whole bundle of ‘Best-selling children’s authors’ mentioned as part of a question in the ‘Who Dares Wins’ quiz show. Technically, I’m not nearly as best-selling as SOME of the super-star authors mentioned, such as ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid‘s Jeff Kinney…
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On the official book birthday of ‘St Grizzle’s School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies’, I had a lot of fun talking to the Year 5s at Ralph Sadleir and Year 4s from Roger De Claire… and I’d like to say a big whoo-hoo in particular to all at Wormley School – especially the poor…
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As I said to the schools I visited this week in Hackney (looking at YOU, Sebright, Daubeney and Lauriston!), World Book Day is SO popular these days that it’s more like World Book Day WEEK! Wait a minute… I’m doing more visits next week, so does that make it World Book Day Fortnight?!? But as…
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Yep, ‘St Grizzle’s School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies’ is heading out into the world NEXT MONTH!! Whoop, whoop!! And here it is, snuggling up with the first two in the series… aw, so cosy! Illustrations are by the super-amazing Becka Moor. (My hero…) Hope you guys make it feel VERY welcome. Big lurve,…
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Had to post this LOVELY review of ‘The Pearl in the Attic’… my novel full of twists and turns, in the present day and Edwardian London, which is CRAMMED with family secrets (and possibly a murder!). Thanks to book blogger Faye for this. (BTW how cool does that sound? Being a book blogger? I’d DEFINITELY…
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Hope your holidays have been as laidback as mine… we’ve done lots of mooching and lazing and laughing the last few days! We’ve squeezed in visits with friends and nice walks too (practically had to DRAG my husband and teen daughter on the walks though… ha!). Dizzy cat was particularly chuffed to have everyone home…
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“Hi, Karen! I’ve just read Catching Falling Stars and it’s my favourite book! I love it SO much that I dressed up as Jess for World Book Day. I think that you should make a film of it! I stayed up until 11pm last night reading it as I wanted to know what happened next – it was too…
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*Gulp* A recent e-mail got me all twinkly in the eye department… a mum wrote to me to say how much her son loved my ‘St Grizzle’s‘ books. So far, so nice. But then came the bit that got me all snuffly… “The thing is, Freddie’s dad and I split up a couple of months ago, and there hasn’t…
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Please say hello to ‘The Mystery of Me‘, the third of my books to be published this summer! As you may have noticed, I love writing different styles of books. This summer I’ve already had ‘The Pearl in the Attic‘ published (a novel about a girl and her grandma, set in two different time periods)…
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