In the Reading Corner

Sally Gardner and Lydia Corry are the creative partnership behind the fabulous Tindims stories, a series that is reminiscent of The Borrowers but with a new 21st Century awareness.  The Tindims are t…

Pippa Curnick has established herself as a picturebook talent and now added her creative magic to a new illustrated fiction series for newly independent readers.

Indigo Wilde and the Creatures of Jell…

Polly Ho-Yen's debut book, The Boy in The Tower, was an instant success. The middle-grade science fiction story about strange spores that affected concrete and led to the collapse of buildings was fu…

Maise Chan is a British Chinese author, born in Birmingham and now living in Glasgow. She runs the Bubble Tea Writers Network, a support group that she set up to encourage writers of East and South-E…

After talking to Nicola Morgan about strategies and techniques for developing resilience, I decided to try belly breathing. It's great for focus and concentration and deflects from the anxieties that…

Historian, broadcaster and writer, Dominic Sandbrook, talks about his collections of historical stories for children.  How do you make history engaging for action-loving children, what is the differe…

David Ouimet is an American artist, author, and musician.

Early illustration work includes album jackets for his rock group Motherheadbug. He has also illustrated stories notably for Robert D San Sou…

A M Howell is the author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of  One Hundred Clocks, historical mysteries set in and around real places in East Anglia. Her third book The Mystery of the Night…

Pooja Puri's  A Dinosaur Ate My Sister was selected as the first book choice for Marcus Rashford's Book Club.  A percentage of sales will be donated to the charity Magic Breakfast. Marcus and Pooja a…

Marcia Williams is well known for her wonderful retellings of best-loved stories in her inimitable comic book style which invite reading and rereading. King Arthur, Robin Hood, Shakespeare, Chaucer a…

Lauren St John is well-known for her thrilling mystery series, The White Giraffe series, Laura Marlin Mysteries and Wolfe and Lamb.  Lauren's books are infused with an adventurous spirit so I was del…

Jenny Pearson's first book The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates was published to great acclaim and quickly became a favourite with primary teachers for its closely observed, hilarious but co…

Hilary McKay is one of the best-loved children's novelists writing today. She has a talent for making the ordinary beautiful and extraordinary.  Her depiction of families is warm and compassionate ev…

Ewa Jozefkowicz's latest book is simply delicious. The Cooking Club Detectives covers some serious territory such as food poverty and adult depression, but it deals with the subjects lightly in a sto…

Susie has been a teacher, a tour guide, a typist, a workshop facilitator, a PA and a painter. She formerly wrote and directed TV programmes for children at the BBC and Channel 4, for which she won a …

M G Leonard is the author of the internationally bestselling Beetle Boy series, a thrilling and sometimes dark adventures series that helped many readers discover an appreciation for the beetle world…

Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian work…

Jodie Lancet-Grant and Lydia Corry popped into The Reading Corner to talk about their book, The Pirate Mums. 

Jodie explained that as a gay mum with twin daughters she was aware of how few picturebook…

Born and raised in Alaska and a longtime journalist for Alaska Public Radio, Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock spent ten years fishing commercially and raised her children on a boat in Southeast Alaska - bringing…

Wildlife writer Martin Jenkins writes books about the natural world for young children that are both informative and engaging.

After graduating from Cambridge University, Martin worked for ten years f…