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Tag: Grub’s Pups

  • 19th June 2013

    Piccadilly, Puppies and a School Visit Tool Kit. Yesterday, I was in Burton on Trent at William Shrewsbury School doing school visitty stuff.  My publisher, Piccadilly Press, are now part of Templar Publishing and had put together a lovely promo poster here… Abi School Event_Poster Template  I love it, and it was great to see…

  • 27th February 2013

    WORLD BOOK DAY! Oh yes, it’s that time of year again, and I LOVE IT!  World Book Day this year is on 7th March.  There are games, resources and a book review competition on their official website (see link above) and you can also follow them on Twitter here. World Book Day, which sees events all over…

  • 17th August 2012

    Where is Grub? Many of you will know about the Ruby and Grub books (well, I hope so… I’d like to think you do), written by yours truly and illustrated by Sarah Warburton, some of whose work you can see here, and published by Piccadilly Press (@PiccadillyPress on Twitter)  The series of three books, aimed at 2-6yrs,…

  • 13th April 2012

    Buttercup Magic… OOOH! A FREEBIE! As some of you will know, I received a wee stash (HOORAY!) of my new book, Buttercup Magic: A Mystery for Megan, (HOORAY!) a couple of weeks ago, from my lovely Publisher, Piccadilly Press (HOORAY!) … okay, enough of that!  It IS exciting though, and I never quite know when my…

  • 2nd December

    A Lorra Crazy Letters If you read my post of 4th November on the launch of Grub’s Pups, you may have noticed that I referred to a letter that I read out to everyone.  In fact, there were two of these – The Sunflower letter, and The Mushy Peas letter – and they form just…

  • 4th November

    Launching Grub’s Pups Okay, so the date for publication of Grub’s Pups was closing in on me, and I had this idea… why don’t I have a book launch?  Then I had this other idea… no, let’s not, too scary.  I’ve been here before you see, and talked myself out of the thing.  I’ve just…