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Exciting News!

One of our favourite series - The Lady Grace Mysteries - is going to be televised on CBBC! We wrote eight of the twelve books and can't wait to see our hero Grace and her friends, Ellie and Masou in action. Lady Grace is the youngest maid of…

World Book Day!

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We hope you had a wonderful World Book Day. We did! A big shout out to the schools we celebrated with - The Cathedral School in Southwark, Ewell Castle Prep, The Blake School in Witney, Shears Green Junior School in Gravesend, and Chancellor…

Back To School!

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We hope you had a lovely school holiday and are looking forward to going back to school. Did you do the Summer Reading Challenge? If you did, congratulations. We hope you also enjoyed some real sports and games. We read lots of books over the…

Dinosaur Day!

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30th June is Dorling Kindersley's first ever Dinosaur Day! We're joining in, encouraging everyone to read about these wonderful prehistoric creatures. Do you have a favourite dinosaur story? Ours are, of course, the Dinosaur Club…

Talking to the World

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We’ve just finished Art Attack which is an online story for Fiction Express. Fiction Express stories are read in classrooms all over the world from Argentina to Thailand. Art Attack is about a boy called Robbie who visits his great-aunt Stella…

World Book Day 2023

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It was World Book Day last Thursday and we had an amazing time at a school in Essex. The great thing about writing stories is you can go anywhere in your imagination. On Thursday we went to Africa with Jack and his magic backpack. We had a treasure…

Happy Christmas!

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We’ve had a fun year and hope you have too. It’s been wonderful seeing our readers in the classroom and on Zoom. It’s very cold now and it’s difficult to imagine how hot it was in the summer. On one of the hottest days of the year we…

Out Now!

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Here are seven of our new reading scheme books – written for Collins Big Cat. We enjoyed writing each one of them, but Dreena’s Hair is particularly special for us. We both have someone close who lost their hair through illness – like…

Summer Challenge!

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This year we’ve had a very happy and busy time writing stories for reading schemes – 15 in total. One of these was for Fiction Express which is an incredible online reading scheme and reaches readers worldwide. Our story is called Flying…

The Spitfire Fund

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The Spitfire Fund was a very successful crowdfunding project in the Second World War. Picture this. It was Britain, 1940 and the Nazis were threatening to invade. The British had a wonderful plane called the Spitfire but they didn’t have enough…

Trekking

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We’ve been doing some research into the Second World War. We were surprised to find that not everyone used the shelters at their home or street during the Blitz. Some people ‘trekked’ to nearby fields and spent the night there to avoid…

New Books Ahoy!

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Ahoy there, shipmates! We have four new books out. Hookwell’s School for Proper Pirates is part of a new reading scheme from Rising Stars. Can you imagine being an ordinary kid and suddenly finding yourself in a school that’s just…

Fun with Fiction Express

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We are having a great time writing a new story for Fiction Express. Fiction Express is an online reading platform where our readers can help decide which way the story goes. It’s frantic, it’s pressured and most of all it’s…

Publication Day!

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We're delighted that our latest books are out today. They are two reading scheme books for Collins Big Cat. ‘Our Fantastic World’ is non-fiction and we had great fun finding out about phenomena like thundersnow and fogbows before. We hope…

EASTER HOLIDAY WRITING CHALLENGE

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One of the best things about writing stories is that you can go anywhere in your imagination – even during lockdown. You might not be able to go on holiday yet, but you can have an adventure without even leaving your house. All you need is…

Lockdown World Book Day

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It was a World Book Day with a difference but we had great fun meeting you all. Not only have we been on pirate treasure hunts and chatted to lots of classes online but we’ve also read stories to audiences that included at least one dad and…

Lockdown Storytelling

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Want to tell a story but you’re running out of ideas? Why not take a traditional tale and tell it or write it in your way? We love doing this. Our story Tom, Dad and Colin is based on an old fable, The Man, the Boy and the Donkey. We…

Happy New Year! Happy New Website!

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Welcome to our new website. We’re delighted to see you back again. 2020 was a very strange year for us all. We hope you’ve all stayed safe and well. One of the good things was that we’ve all been reading more. Books are a wonderful way…