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My roomToday’s vintage find. Black 50s wiggle dress with peplum. £5.Bottling timeThe youth of today. I ask you.Stole this from the Met’s Christmas tree next to the spinning cheese yesterday. This is a lovely scheme, which meant hundreds of London kids in care and in need got Christmas presents last year. I’m doing it again this year. I hope you will too.Surprising PaddingtonTwitter
- Escaped hamster (again) located behind the washing machine where it was defending its new lair (featuring a water p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 13 hours ago
- No, please do tag me to tell me you bought my book on eBay, so I’ll have earned nothing. 1 day ago
- Me: Shall I write this lecture or shall I read the bloody excellent Blood and Sugar by @LauraSRobinson again? *opens Kindle* 1 day ago
- Today’s vintage find. Black 1950s wiggle dress with peplum. £5. https://t.co/0RHO4IZkYe 2 days ago
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Category Archives: YA
BAFTA, baby!
On Friday, someone asked me how different my life was a decade ago. And other than the Menace being smaller and markedly more menacing, and my home being two roads away, I said it barely was. ten years ago I … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, Fiction, middle grade, Teen, YA
Tagged BAFTA, Beryl Richards, CBBC, Daniel Frogson, Joe All Alone, Joe Sims, Liani Samuels, Nadine Marsh-Edwards, Vas Blackwood, Zodiak Kids
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CBBC’s Joe All Alone and the truth about child poverty
Joe All Alone is a book (and, now, BBC TV series) about friendship. It’s a book about family, and what constitutes that today. It’s a book about bullying. It’s a book about difference and acceptance. But beneath all that, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Fiction, middle grade, Teen, Uncategorized, YA
Tagged CBBC, child poverty, Daniel Frogson, Home Alone, Joanna Nadin, Joe All Alone, Joe Sims, Vas Blackwood
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Joe in the post
In the run-up to Christmas, opening the post is always accompanied by a little frisson of anticipation, invariably dampened when I find it is only catalogues or credit statements or a card from someone I have never met addressed to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, middle grade, Reading, Teen, YA
Tagged Banijay, CBBC, Daniel Frogson, Joe All Alone, Joe Sims, tv drama, Vas Blackwood, Zodiak
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The Carnegie Feeling
I have never been one of life’s winners when it comes to sport, barely even scraping third in the 1979 St Mary’s Primary sports day yoghurt-pot-and-umbrella race (actual race, involving running wildly around the field with an empty Ski pot … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, YA
Tagged Anthony McGowan, Atom Books, Carnegie Medal, Everybody Hurts, Hachette, Joanna Nadin, Leeds, Little Brown, love, teen romance, YA
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