“Lyra Belacqua from Northern Lights showed me that girls can be just as brave as boys, adults and even armoured polar bears. Mildred Hubble from The Worst Witch helped me navigate friendships. Lucy Pevensie from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe taught me to believe in worlds behind wardrobes and once in Narnia, Aslan showed me how to hope, even in the darkest times.”
Jasbinder Bilan is the author of Asha And The Spirit Bird, an evocative, beautiful magical-realist Indian adventure and the winner of the 2017 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. Asha And The Spirit
Sophie Anderson is the best-selling and much-loved author of The House with Chicken Legs, which has just been longlisted for the 2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals. Here she talks
Emer Stamp is the author of the award-winning The Diary of Pig series. Here she talks about winning the Lollies 2018 award for Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 6-8s
Michelle Harrison is the award-winning author of The Thirteen Treasures. Here, she talks about her new book A Pinch of Magic, her favourite childhood books and the joys of reading
Lesléa Newman is the author of 70 books for readers of all ages, including A Letter to Harvey Milk; October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard; I Carry My Mother; The
The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things Today we welcome the ever elusive, constantly sneaky, lover of words Vocabulary Ninja into The Reading Realm, to discuss his favourite
The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “I was always a complete book-worm as a child. My earliest memory of reading is probably sneaking out new books from
“Reading helps you to develop an explorer’s heart, and the world never looks quite the same once you’ve glimpsed it through someone else’s eyes…” I’m delighted to invite Sinead O’Hart
