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The Kids Lit Quiz - a championship for the world's best readers

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Happy participants at the South England Kids Lit Quiz I first heard of the Kids Lit Quiz on Facebook when last year I noticed all my aut...

Why I Love Star Wars

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Hilarious video on the origins of Star Wars. If you're viewing this on facebook, you can see the video here 1977. I was fifteen and t...

Christmas Book Plate for Tall Story

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Creating downloads and fun marketing stuff for Tall Story has become an integral part of my procrastination regime. If you're planning...

Ten Things I Learned on the Tenth Year of SCBWI British Isles (Scoobeebee)

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This weekend we celebrated the tenth birthday of SCBWI British Isles – SCBWI stands for Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators...

I Was a Librarian's Pet and Other Stories

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Tall Story has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal - if you've never heard of it, this is awarded by children's librarians and i...

Thinking of Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Black History Month

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Rafe Bartholomew talking about the Filipino passion for basketball that inspired his book Pacific Rims Can't see the video? View it on...

Health and safety or clever comment? Ai Weiwei's sunflower seed debacle at the Tate Modern

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"Are you sure it's not deliberate?" That was my reaction when I heard that the spectacular sunflower seed installation by Ch...

Auto-tuning the news - how marvelous!

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My blogs gone quiet ... that's because I'm writing hard - gotta turn my new novel in before Christmas! But until I get back to ya, I...

Philippine hostage crisis: wisdom in a time of grieving

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here is so much pain and anger in Hong Kong and in the Philippines after the hostage crisis. I was moved by this message from a teenager who...

POSTCARD FROM MANILA: imagining a Philippines in which all children love to read

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With luminaries of the Philippine Board on Books for Young People on National Children's Book Day. Photo courtesy of Zarah Gagatiga ...

POSTCARD FROM MANILA: What we do for love

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Everywhere in Manila, one senses the struggle to make a living. I live in a place called Cubao, on the edge of a slum, and every corner li...

POSTCARD FROM MANILA: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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The Philippine edition of Tall Story launches in Manila next week so I am winging my way from London to Manila via Amsterdam. There is on...