Today’s blog features a Q&A with Selina Brown, author of My Rice is Best, a colourful celebration of food and friendship! Can you tell us where the idea for this story came from? The idea for My Rice is Best! came from the playful, long-standing debate between Caribbeans and Africans about who makes the […]
We have a blog from Piers Torday all about his interest in wildlife throughout his life. Another perfect link to our National Share A Story Month theme! I grew up in the valleys and moors of rural Northumberland, and my own curiosity about the natural world was fostered by the classic children’s books I enjoyed […]
Maybe You Might: an interview with Imogen Foxell Maybe You Might, written by Imogen Foxell, illustrated by Anna Cunha and published by Lantana, is a lyrical and hopeful environmental fable that struck a chord with us as we were thinking about this year’s National Share a Story Month theme: Changing the World, One Book at […]
SuperQuesters Mission: River Crest Rescue by Paul Ian Cross SuperQuesters Mission: River Crest Rescue is a science-packed adventure chapter book featuring puzzles and experiments to try yourself. It is perfect for this year’s National Share-a-Story Month theme, Saving the World, One Book at a Time, as it includes environmental issues and how STEM can help […]
Barbara Henderson shares her thoughts on how books can change the world, a perfect link to National Share A Story Month. Changing the world, one book at a time. Reading is a form of activism. I make no apologies for this fairly sweeping statement – I believe it to be absolutely true. By turning the […]
In today’s blog, Catherine Bruton shares her inspiration for Bird Boy. This books reflects the theme of National Share A Story month brilliantly. “Tell children stories and let them tell their stories. Through stories children can start to heal.” My name is Catherine Bruton and when I’m not writing books for children, I’m also a […]
The theme of National Share a Story Month 2025 is about changing the world through nurturing a love of the environment whether close to home or further away. Watch Me Bloom by Krina Patel-Sage (from Lantana Publishing), seemed to sum that up; we loved the way that it illustrates how connection to the natural world […]
Author Rachel Keating shares a very personal blog with us today about her Grandad and the inspiration for The Bird Thief. ‘My favourite eldest Granddaughter.’ Didn’t matter if I was aged 6 or 36, if it was written on the back of a newspaper cutting about British songbirds sent in the post or spoken softly […]
Mission Manta Ray is one of three book in Philip Kavvadias’s series and he shares insight into these books in his guest blog below. In my day job I help hundreds of companies set carbon reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement, in other words I help them make their contribution to keeping the […]
Author Lui Sit shares her experiences and how they impacted her writing of Land of the Last Wildcat. If you told me, thirty odd years ago, when dressed as a koala doing acrobatics under the baking Australian sun, that the experience would culminate in my writing a children’s middle-grade book with underlying themes of conservation […]
