What would YOU do if you found a stranded alien hiding in your school? Kiki and Wes don’t know each other very well, but they have to team up pretty quickly when they realise they’re the only ones who can help the lost and far-from-home Star Boy. And of course helping the alien means teaching …
‘Granny’s Little Monsters‘ is a brand new story I’ve written for younger readers (out August ’21 from Barrington Stoke). My own little monster (Bonnie the Westie pup) is very keen on it. Not the story so much as seeing how chewy the book is… As for the story, it’s about cousins Zac and Essie, who …
One month to go: ‘How To Hide An Alien’ – the follow-up to ‘How To Be A Human’ – publishes on July 7th. Find out how the stranded alien school boy is getting on in his newly adopted home town… (Spoiler: BADLY!) *Delicious covers: #ThyBui*
A while back, I was watching the musical ‘Oliver’ with my (grown-up) kid when I suddenly thought how much fun it would be to write a spin-off of ‘Oliver Twist’. It took a couple of weeks of noodling around with ideas, till I came up with ‘Fagin’s Girl’, which is set just before the period …
A kid finds a crash-landed alien kid… Hmm, the new John Lewis Christmas ad seems familiar! Maybe like a book I once read? Or WROTE, even! “It’s very nice of John Lewis to help promote ‘How To Be A Human’, someone joked on Twitter. But hey, I do LOVE a coincidence…
I’m often asked how people can get hold of a personally signed copy of one of my books, either for themselves or as a present for someone. So I thought I’d let you know how that can happen! Order a copy of the book you want from the lovely people at my local children’s bookshop, …
Can you imagine being sixteen, having half-an-hour’s training and then jumping out of a hot air balloon with a flimsy parachute? That was how the brave and daring Dolly Shepherd began her career as an aeronaut in 1904, and I’ve loved telling her true-life story in my new book ‘The Girl With Her Head in …
There’s a new pup in the house – how will I ever get any work done with this amount of cuteness to distract me? Her name is Bonnie and she’s 12 weeks old. She’s a West Highland Terrier, which is a Scottish breed, and they’re very smart and sensible. Except Bonnie is only a puppy, …
Yep, it’s been a totally weird year, but like everyone I’ve been making the most of every small pleasure and every bit of good news going. So I thought I’d share the most AMAZING Tweet about my pair of ‘Little Bird’ historical adventure novels. This compliment from a bookseller blew me away! I absolutely loved …
I’ve just found out today that ‘LITTLE BIRD FLIES’ has been nominated for the super prestigious CILIP Carnegie Children’s Book Awards! It’s the first time I’ve ever had a book on the list, and I’m unbelievably chuffed. Especially since the nomination is for THIS particular book, which I’d wanted to write for forever. ‘Little Bird …
