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