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Its the first day that The Promise, the picture book I’ve done with illustrator Laura Carlin is out in the world. I want to write a post about it…about how it came to be written and all the strands that were drawn together for me by creating that text, but there isn’t time today. I’m […]

Last Friday afternoon I spent two hours in the company of one of my childhood heroes. I didn’t know much about him when I was seven or eight, but I did know his pictures of birds, reproduced in books and magazines about ornithology, and all the more wonderful to me because they depicted birds from […]

I’m off to America tomorrow. Funny how travel never seems real when you write the words and only when you get on the plane. I’ll be traveling round schools in upstate New York talking to hundreds of children about animals and conservation and writing, focussing on my non fiction books. Narrative non fiction is huge […]

This time last week I was at the Imagine Festival on the South Bank running writing workshops for children on half term and taking refuge from the absolutely bone chilling cold on the Thames bank outside. We had less than an hour to turn out a bit of writing so we had to work super […]