Tigers are a wild cat that I am fascinated by, reading this beautiful book inspired me to want to learn more and thanks to Charlotte at HCCB I was able to start doing that by asking author Felicity Yeoh some questions about the book. I hope it will inspire you too, to find out how much joy books are able to share and how many important messages they can sneak in... Why did you choose a picturebook format for this very evocative subject – the fact that tigers (and other animal

‘Bison Rule, OK!’ is my second poetry collection for children – my first with the fantastic Otter-Barry Books – and whilst ‘Why did my brain make me say it?’ included various nature poems, here the ‘Astonishing Animals’ have their very own section, although as is the way of animals, some have managed to sneak their way into other sections too (keep an eye out for escapees in ‘School’ and ‘Special Days’). The titular bison insisted that there be no poems about unicorns or ll

Alison Weatherby answers some questions about her Middle Grade murder mystery, discover more about the importance of the title, setting and crimes involved in the first story of a promised series... First, the title. Did you intend it to be alliterative & do titles come easily to you? Titles are so hard! My editor and I went back and forth on titles for ages. I think I suggested maybe 20 different ones! We wanted the title to have something to do with death and murder, of co

Manners, they are very important to us all. Why did you feel young people needed a reminder about using their manners? Interestingly, I didn't! If anything, The Ministry of Manners began with the opposite idea. Manners are generally a good thing. Saying please and thank you, holding doors open, treating people with kindness and respect... most of us would agree those are positive values. What interested me was what happens when a good idea is taken too far. History is full of

With thanks to Anna Read at Macmillan Children's Books for suggesting I do a Q&A with Hazel Gardner about her very unusual and very funny Boots & Cats and to for giving us such wonderful answers to read & of course a fabulous book to share! On which note you can find the book in all those wonderful places you might usually visit to buy them! Where did the idea of Boots and Cats come from, I wonder if you were inspired by the old tale of Puss in Boots? I wasn’t inspired by any