The Filipino Group is a vibrant book group on Goodreads who talk books not only online but in regular face to face meet ups. How inspiring ...

The AFCC (Asian Festival of Children's Content) was held in Singapore on 25 to 30 May 2013 At the moment, I'm reading The Langu...

Arthur Rackham's illustration of The Three Bears Have you ever wondered if there was a fourth bear in The Three Bears ? And did Lit...

Hey everybody, I made this for you! A Discussion Guide for Tall Story by Candy Gourlay

If you can't see the slideshare, view it here

A video for the children of Brazil that I made with picture book man Ed Vere and the children of Nightingale School for Pop Up Projects !

I stopped for coffee next to the Hackney Empire theatre  Today I visited three schools in Hackney as part of the Booklinks programme c...

Bookselling table and festival crew.

The children had all drawn pictures of the book! I am scheduled to visit them again to see their work on Tall Story and I CAN'T WAIT...

Photographer Ian Beesley's favourite shot marks a time when his beloved boss of old was coming to the end of his career, just as Ian...

Info ... what? Over on my other blog  Notes from the Slushpile , we've started a new series called the Geek List - geeky tools that...

I have been so busy writing my next novel that I've neglected to do a big HURRAH for the amazing Listening Library audiobook of Tall Sto...

I posted this caption story on my Facebook page then I thought ... why not blog it as well? I was totally blown away by A Monster Calls...

Schools Need Libraries from Candy Gourlay

Jenny Woolf, Ham & High : The School Librarian BLOGS Book Witch, Meat Cleaver Time : "My best book of the year has t...

I've got some school visits coming up in the next month or so and I had the brilliant idea of printing door hangers instead of book m...

Swipe to view slideshow if you're on a smartphone. Today is the International Day of the Girl .

It was National Poetry Day the other day and seeing all the other blogs exploding into rhyme reminded me that I had a few old poems stashe...

I've had libraries on my mind these past few days. Went to the School Librarian of the Year Award Ceremonies on Monday - I made a Slide...

Just a heads up to any writers passing through of stuff I recently wrote on the group blog for writers Notes from the Slushpile : Writing ...

'Goodbye to Britain's golden summer,' wrote columnist Jonathan Freedland at the close of London 2012. It was indeed golden, and ...

Over on the Storyblog, DFB authors and illustrators are blogging on the subject of second books. The subject of course is most significant...

This is just a hurried photo run-down of an outstanding day. With thanks to the hardworking organizers of the IBBY World Congress 2012 fo...

I've been away, travelling, and so I missed Monday's unveiling of my own story (illustrated by the amazing amazing Deborah Allwri...

NEWS! Tall Story recently won the National Children's Book Award in the Philippines ! Big congrats to my illustrator Yasmin Ong and p...

I seem to be writing love letters this weekend ... well, not just writing. First off,  here's some video love for the Theresian School o...

Twas the night before the Pop Up Festival of Stories and my friend Juliet Clare Bell , author of the wonderful Don't Panic, Annika , lo...

One of the amazing things about being an author is you run into amazing people. I met sound recordist Jon Owen when I recorded the sound ...

Just read teen author Keren David's post about her daughter's glitzy school ball for leavers. The headmaster gave some advice to the...

I was thrilled to discover this morning that Patrick Ness had won the Carnegie AND the Greenaway (with illustrator Jim Kay) for their stun...

An interactive display at the Jewish Museum  I met my first Jewish person during the political turmoil of the 1980s when the Philippines...

Here's a video I made with the scraps I found in my camera. Apologies for the poor focusing - I got a new camera lens for my birthday...

I've just come back from Singapore where I attended the Asian Festival of Children's Content! Yup. That's the author's life....

So many banana peels, so little time.  This week, I'm guest blogging on Elizabeth Stevens Omlor' s Banana Peelin blog - Elizabeth...

Candy at 15 with baby brother Armand,  just two. I'm so excited because I'm the featured author on Dear Teen Me . It's a bl...

Sarah McIntyre responded to the Q&A in cartoons! Wish I had the idea first! Over on the StoryBlog, we're all responding to a Q...

I can't believe it! After two and a half years of gnashing my teeth, SHINE is finished! Neil Gaiman, quoting Gene Wolfe, says: "You...

I've made quite a few fun videos now with the cooperative children who live in my neighbourhood, but the kids - rather inconveniently...

... yup, I'm keeping my head down for a bit because I'm busy writing the final chapters of my forthcoming novel SHINE (I hope the...

This is a photo of me on a South Korean beach just before I almost drowned 25 years ago. Over on the DFB Blog, I've been asked to blo...

Last week, I was one of the shortlisted authors who attended the wonderful prize giving ceremony for the Salford Children's Book Awar...

An excerpt from the Reader's Cup - taken with my mobile phone!

Here's wishing you all much happiness this coming New Year, whatever 2012 may bring ...

Season's Greetings, oh lovely friends and readers!!!

Quizmaster Wayne Mills travels the world conducting these quizzes Wow! Yesterday, I chugged up to the North London Heat of the Kids Lit ...

You win a prize, you get to cut the cake! Photo: Sue Eves I've just come home from a most moving weekend. It was the annual conferen...

Reading is good. But how should reading be taught? Photo:  Pratham Books   I'm an author (just). Surely I know something about read...

Yes, dear reader, Mum of Warcraft is based on my absolutely true story as a part-time computer game fanatic. Check out my Mum of Warcraft ...

Screen Grab from ABC News obit I was saddened this morning to hear that Steve Jobs had died . I immediately wanted to write a quic...

I've been deep in my cave these last few weeks, writing furiously -   our recent holiday has given me fresh energy and for the first ...

Well it's back to school for us here in the UK - and I'm sure school children all over the country are gearing up to write the tra...

It's the summer holidays but I seem to be doing a lot of guest blogging! Come along and see what I'm wittering on about on other peo...