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As April is National Pet Month, we’ve pulled together a few illustrations from our Barrington Stoke pet stories, with a crazy ostrich, a missing python, devious dogs and many more. Is your favourite amongst them? Michael Morpurgo’s Snug explores the relationship between a young girl and her pet cat. The pair have grown up together, […]
Did you know that Mark Twain defined a classic as a book everyone wants to have read but no one wants to actually read? We’d be willing to bet that for many readers ”“ rightly or wrongly ”“ the word classic conjures up visions of dustiness, worthiness or plain old hard work. It was interesting […]
We are incredibly excited and proud that Bernard Ashley’s Nadine Dreams of Home has been shortlisted for the Little Rebels Book Award – a first for a Barrington Stoke title. We are thrilled for Bernard, and to have one of our books listed alongside fantastic stories championing diversity in children’s fiction. Nadine Dreams of Home […]
Another Bologna Book Fair has come and gone and a buzzy, exciting and of course exhausting event it was too. Here are our top ten moments: 1. The authors. Malorie Blackman swung by the stand, Eoin Colfer popped in for a glass of fizz and a squizz at Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious Desirable (Jane also […]
Forget Dracula from Romania, move over Edward Cullen from Forks, goodbye France’s Lestat. Vampires are British and have been roaming our soil for centuries”¦ “On the last stroke of midnight we saw a shadow move across the churchyard. It seemed to come from the church door ”“ or maybe from the great, grey Perkins tomb. […]
