The summer edition of National Geographic Kids magazine has picked TALL STORY as one of its Brilliant Summer Books.

Thanks to Liz de Jager (of the My Favourite Books Blog) who wrote a review that actually brought tears to my eyes.

Today, I'm the featured 'Mythic Interview' on the Scribble City Central Blog, which was shortlisted for the first Author Blog awards.

I'm so chuffed that Caroline of the Portrait of a Woman blog liked Tall Story. 

The online bookstore LoveReading4Kids has picked Tall Story as one of its debuts of the month.

Tall Story's book trailer has launched to a wonderful blaze of re-postings on blogs and Facebook profiles!

The marvellous Tracy Baines of the Tall Tales and Short Stories blog interviewed me on her blog.

Thanks to Book Witch for the terrific review (but it's a bit early, isn't it? it isn't out until the end of the month!)

I shall be speaking at the Holloway Arts Festival on 28 June 2010.

My friend the illustrator Sarah McIntyre (of Vern and Lettuce and Morris the Mankiest Monster fame ...watch her, she's gonna be big)said some really nice things about Tall Story!

The Bookseller, the leading business magazine for the UK book industry, has featured Tall Story on its list of choice children's books for June.

You can hear it on the BBC Radioplayer. Click on 'storytime' and then select the icon for 'The Tiger's Meow'. It is performed beautifully by the actress Adanna Oji 

A school that blogs? How fabulous!

An interactive talk about the magic of Story and how you can find Story in anything. You just have to look. There will be storytelling! And drawing!

I'll be giving a talk at my alma mater Ateneo de Manila University. I will look back on a writing journey that spanned a revolution and lots of laundry and rejection. 

A critic and curator poll for the British Film Institute picked my video Bob Fosse Michael Jackson Pas de Deux as one of the top online videos of 2009. View the article here.

We had pasta! And gossip, lots of it.

I was a reporter on the Inquirer's first incarnation as a weekly tabloid, and later a desk editor when it became a daily.

Former Inquirer journalist Candy Quimpo Gourlay this week sold her novel TALL STORY to the Random House imprint David Fickling Books but reserved Philippine publication rights for Cacho publishing in the Philippines.

David Fickling Books is enormously proud to announce the acquisition of a new stand-(tall)-alone novel, TALL STORY!