'The new master of books for children' The Times
Happy 2024!
While I was waiting for edits on the new book (on which more soon) at the end of last year, I spoke to my fellow children’s author Polly Ho-Yen for her brilliant new “Making Books” podcast on the art of making books, about everything writing related from the seven stages of editing reactions to how to get started…
It was a pleasure to talk to John Craven about Roald Dahl (they knew each other) about how Dahl was inspired by the countryside on a special tribute episode of BBC Countryfile.
I enjoyed a great morning with John and some local school children discussing Dahl in the beautiful Angle Spring Woods outside Great Missenden. It’s believed that whilst walking in these woods Roald Dahl came up with the idea for Fantastic Mr Fox…