Today Paulette Dowle explains, through a Question and Answer we conducted, how the idea of The Troll Trotters came about, how she chose her character names and the importance of telling stories through picturebooks. My thanks to Paulette for taking the time to answer these questions and to Ant Barlow at Tiny Tree Books for suggesting the Blog feature. Why did you choose Trolls as your primary characters? I wanted to gently challenge the idea of what children are expected to i

Sarah Oliver, author of Rollercoaster Girl, out now and published by Tiny Tree Books (thanks to Ant Barlow at Tiny Tree for suggesting this Blog feature) shares some of her insights into the challenges facing an author who decides to write a story for younger readers! How long does it take to write a book? Isn’t that a million dollar question. I’ve written over 30 books over the last 17 years and had one Sunday Times best seller. Some books have taken close to a year, others

Discover more about Morag Hood's choice of a seahorse as a character and the challenges of writing, as well as illustrating, picturebooks in this insightful Q&A Blog feature. This story is wonderful, funny and very relatable – for young readers and adults. Was that your intention when the idea came to you? The first idea came about when my son was very little and there were a lot of big feelings floating around – the title really represents how I felt at that time! But I also