Candy Gourlay - Author of Tall Story: Books

... and other stuff I've done!

'So many armpits, so little deodorant.'

Basketball-mad Andi thinks she has big problems until she meets her long-lost brother Bernardo who is tall ... but not just tall - a giant. Bernardo is eight feet tall. He suffers from a disease called gigantism but in his little village, people think he's a legendary giant come to save them from earthquakes!

My debut novel Tall Story was published by David Fickling Books in 2010. It won the Crystal Kite Prize for Europe and was shortlisted for 11 children's book prizes including the Blue Peter Prize, the Waterstone's and the Branford Boase. It was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. More nice bits of acclaim

Website www.tallstory.net
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"The possibility of the supernatural woven into a life of struggle makes this faintly reminiscent of Louis Sachar's Holes ... A lovely book, as colourful, cheerful and original as its cover." Amanda Craig, The Times

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A Filipino edition is available in all good bookstores in the Philippines

My second novel, Shine, is due to be published in mid 2012.

'If I told you how to build a perfect sand castle I'd have to kill you ...'

Ben and his friend Spit build sand castles for the tourists on Sugar Island - it's called Sugar Island after its beach which has white sand as fine as sugar. But they soon discover that their beach, their island and their way of life is under threat ... all because the ocean has become hotter by one degree. My short story How to Build the Perfect Sand Castle was published in the Tony Bradman anthology about Climate Change, Under the Weather (Frances Lincoln).

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'It was said that Mango Island had the sweetest mangoes in the world. But Mango Island was in the middle of the world’s deepest river. And in the river lived the world’s meanest crocodiles ... no one could reach the delicious mangoes.' Then along came Monkey ... Animal Tricksters is an anthology of animal trickster stories (from Africa, the Philippines and South America) that I wrote for the Oxford Reading Tree's Myths and Legends series. I loved the illustrations by Galia Bernstein, Margaret Chamberlain and Thomas Docherty.

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