I’m going to be talking about my Animal Stories, and The Lost Bear Cub, as part of this World Book Day celebration. The event runs from 10am to 2pm, but my talk is at 10. There will be lots of fun activities at the library!
Join me at Ewell Library this half-term to find out the stories of the real animals behind my Animal Stories books! Tuesday 13th February, 10.30-11.30 and booking is here.
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
I’m going to be talking about my Animal Stories at the Wokingham Children’s Book festival on Sunday 15th October at 9.45am. Come and find out about the animals behind my stories, and why I love writing about cats and dogs! There will be a signing after the talk too.
Bookings are here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bookfest/
Looking forward to seeing you!
I’m so excited to be visiting Kilkenny for the Bookville Festival! I’ll be talking about my Animal Stories and sharing lots of tales about my own animals and the inspiration behind my books. More details about the festival are here.
I’m back home now after a great week travelling round different schools and events for World Book Day. It’s always so brilliant to see everyone’s excitement about books and reading! I got to visit three brilliant schools:
And about sixteen more online, through a fab Museum Kittens online event with Tameside Libraries. One of the schools got to visit the library afterwards to find my books – I love these photos!
I also did lots of reading on a book barge moored at Camden Market! They had gorgeous book themed food, a butterfly (from The Very Hungry Caterpillar) on stilts, and a chair made out of books!
It was brilliant to see so many children dressed up as characters from my books too!
This is a fantastic Star!
It was so lovely to see Museum Kittens costumes for the first time!
And I got to help make museums with Sarah Lodge’s brilliant artwork:
We also had Jess the Lonely Puppy
Maisie Hitchins, with beautiful red hair!
A fabulous Rose costume, from Rose and the Magician’s Mask
And me! I love this one – I do wear a lot of cardigans and big necklaces…
Hope you all had an amazing World Book Day too!
Join me for a live Animal Stories event on Thursday 26th March at 10am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3cKLd7RkTdo2Osh1_Y2NmQ?view_as=subscriber
I love having a website, as it means that readers can leave comments and send me emails (and I do try to answer them all, really sorry if it takes a while sometimes!) I get lots of messages via Twitter and Facebook too, and I spend far too long on Twitter when I should be working – a lot of authors say this… But Twitter and Facebook are great ways to show how much you love books and reading. Over the last couple of days I’ve been sent a fab photo from a mum making a Maisie Hitchins costume for World Book Day (Thursday 2nd March), and a really special video from Toby, celebrating International Read to Me Day, which will be on March 19th.
Toby chose to read from The Moonlight Statue, which is the first book in my brand new Hounds of Penhallow Hall series. It’s just been published, so it’s really exciting for me to see someone enjoying it! You can watch Toby’s video on Twitter by following this link:
Toby's on a special mission for @ReadToMeDay, which is next month, with help from his favourite book by @HollyKateSkeet and @lovereadingkids pic.twitter.com/QLFTYKy2tK
— Toby Little (@tobyiswriting) February 19, 2017
Thanks so much to everyone who contacts me online!
The first book in my new series is out today! The Hounds of Penhallow Hall – The Moonlight Statue! I’m so excited about this one. Happy Book Birthday to Polly and Rex, the magical wolfhound statue who comes alive to take her on amazing adventures. Huge thanks to Jason Cockcroft for the beautiful cover and inside illustrations.