Victoria Williamson has been a teacher for many years. Her debut novel, The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle, beautifully tells the story of twelve year old Syrian refugee Reema
Jennifer Killick lives in London and is the author of the popular Alex Sparrow series. Here she talks about her new book, Mo, Lottie and the Junkers… Without giving too
The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “Truthfully, I can’t remember a time without reading and writing. There is a photo of me as a tiny baby on
Catherine Fisher is an acclaimed poet and author. Her books include The Relic Master, Incarceron and Sapphique. Here she talks about her latest mysterious, snowy, gothic book The Clockwork Crow… Without
Tom Palmer is the author of three Puffin football children’s series, Football Academy, Foul Play and The Squad and has written 14 books for Barrington Stoke. Foul Play was short listed for the 2009 Blue Peter Book Award. Here he
The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “In theory, books should be just a bunch of pages, bound together and stained with ink; in fact they are heartbreak,
Giles Paley-Phillips is the author of Little Bell and the Moon and The Fearsome Beastie. Here, he talks about his new book for teenagers and adults, One Hundred and Fifty-Two
I wrote this poem to read out at a conference. I talked about how, when I say ‘teachers’, I really mean EVERY single person who works with our children to
The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “I have a pile of cushions stuffed under my desk: every day we spread them across the classroom, the children get
