Happy Children’s Book Week! The theme for this year’s event is Books Light Up Our World… which got me thinking, what were the books that lit up my world as a kid? In no particular order, here are the books that I loved as a child and will cherish forever:
Take me back to Somerset!
It’s Day 120 since my maternity leave finished and I returned to my job as a journalist. It’s Day 46 since The Anti-Princess Club hit shelves. And it’s Day 26 since the Somerset Celebration of Literature.
The Anti-Princess Club books
The moment has come. I’ve been given the all clear to finally let you in on the titles, covers and brief synopses of my books (due for release with Allen & Unwin in March)… drumroll please… The series is called…
It’s never too early to read
It seemed silly, but on the day my daughter was born I read to her.As she gurgled away in the hospital bassinet, I read aloud Mem Fox’s Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. It was Fox herself whose advice was ringing through my head as I read to my hours-old baby. “I beg you all to read superb books …