Stanley’s Stick has been shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Awards 2013! The Awards are to be judged by over 4,000 pupils from 32 Portsmouth schools with the winners announced later this year. For more info and a list of all the nominated titles there is a pdf here – PBA 2013 shortlist announcement.  

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Simon Pegg reads Stanley’s Stick, by John Hegley on CBeebies! If you missed the broadcast show (or the ending!) you can view it on demand until 26th December here.

Stanley’s Stick is now available as an eBook for iPads, iPhones or Kindles!  

Jennifer Jones Won’t Leave Me Alone is now available as an eBook! Winner of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2004, The Stockport Children’s Book Award 2004 and the Portsmouth Children’s Book Award 2005.

Thanks to Somers Park Primary School for your beautiful letters and drawings. It was a pleasure to help launch your new library!

The Bookseller has given Deadly a great review and selected it as one of November’s best children’s books!

Baby Betsy was very surprised and excited to open her New Baby Bookstart pack and find one of her father’s books – Go Wild with… Noises! ‘Go Wild with… Noises’ is published by Pavilion Books as part of The Go Wild Series.

This morning a Deadly package arrived through the post! Well actually it was a package of ‘Deadly’, the latest book from the team that brought you Poo! Written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Neal Layton, Deadly: The Truth About The Most Dangerous Creatures on Earth is published by Walker Books in November and should be available from all […]

Four of the books in my edition bagged up and ready to go…   …and the fifth book in the edition on display in the exhibition.   The gallery is above Southsea Library, so if you enjoyed the show why not pop downstairs and read one of Dickens’ books first hand – or visit his birthplace […]