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!
Come along to Waterstones Staines in half term to hear about my latest Animal Stories book, The Firefighter’s Kitten! There will be a kitten craft activity too, and lots of time for asking questions and signing books. More details here. Please contact the shop to reserve a space!
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’ve just worked out that as this is 2023, I have been writing for twenty years! You can see twenty years of messy shelves here – books and bits and gorgeous drawings from readers – and there’s another even messier set of shelves opposite! My first book, Becky’s Terrible Term, part of the Triplets series, was written during 2003 (the same year my daughter Ash was born!) and published in January 2004. And my 157th book, The Borrowed Puppy, is published today by Little Tiger Press! The Borrowed Puppy is book 54 of the Animal Stories series – the series that was never meant to be a series…
I feel incredibly lucky to have spent twenty years doing something I really, really love. Huge thanks to all my readers!
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!
I’m doing lots of school visits this week to celebrate World Book Day, but there are also three story events at Camden Market – and they’re free!
Thursday 3rd March 5.15pm
Friday 4th March 4.15pm
Sunday 6th March 5.30pm
I’ll be reading my short story, The Story Kitten, as well as signing books and giving out badges!
I’ve got lots of school visits planned for the week around World Book Day – 28th February to 4th March – but I also have two free public storytelling events that week at Camden Market in London. Times are not absolutely fixed yet, but are probably Thursday 3rd 5.15-5.45pm (possibly this will change to earlier!) and Friday 4th 4.15-4.45pm. So looking forward to events again!
It’s so exciting to have 50 books in the Animal Stories series! A Puppy’s First Christmas has been getting some lovely reviews online, but I think this is my favourite… This gorgeous puppy belongs to the Eaton family – you can find them on Instagram at @an.eaton.readit