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  • Mike Rampton and Guilherme Karsten:  Why we should ask questions!

    Mike Rampton and Guilherme Karsten: Why we should ask questions!

    Discover the importance of asking questions in the fact-tastique Why There is No Such Thing as a Silly Question! Mike Rampton is an author and journalist who lives in a nice village near Cambridge with his wife and daughter. He often has a pen behind hi...

  • The comic inspirations behind Swapna Reddy's new Reggie Rabbit series

    The comic inspirations behind Swapna Reddy's new Reggie Rabbit series

    Humour, comic-style illustrations and daring-do will have children reaching for the new Reggie Rabbit books by Swapna Reddy, illustrated by Becka Moor.   Swapna Reddy also writes as Swapna Haddow, author of the Dave Pigeon books. Friendship and humour a...

  • Liz Flanagan introduces her Wildsmith series

    Liz Flanagan introduces her Wildsmith series

    Liz Flanagan introduce her latest and final book in the Wildsmith series, Magical Mountain Rescue, and tells ReadingZone what inspired the books and what she would do with Wildsmith powers!  Liz also writes the Legends of the Sky series. <...

  • Martin Howard

    Martin Howard

    Martin Howard writes absurdly funny books for children and he's here to tell us about his latest book, Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull - his favourite book so far!  Since starting out as a writer in 2005 Martin has written about 100 books for adults and children, fiction an...

  • Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin, whose passion for horses shines through her writing, joins ReadingZone to tell us about The Horse Who Danced, her exciting new adventure. Olivia lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband, their children, and an assortment of ponies, dogs, pet sheep and chi...

  • Alex Foulkes

    Alex Foulkes

    Discover a world of mischievous imps in Alex Foulkes's new children's book, Ministry of Mischief! Alex is from Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands of England, and lives with her boyfriend and their dog, Mac, who is just small enough to sit on the back of a broomstick (very c...

  • Katherine Woodfine

    Katherine Woodfine

    Katherine Woodfine and Isabelle Follath introduce their retelling of LM Montgomery's classic story, Anne of Green Gables. Katherine Woodfine writes murder mystery series including Sinclair's Mysteries and The Taylor &amp; Rose Secret Agents series. She...

  • BB Alston

    BB Alston

    BB Alston started writing in middle school, entertaining his classmates with horror stories starring the whole class where not everyone survived! He had just been accepted into a biomedical graduate program when a chance entry into a twitter pitch contest led to his signing with his agent, 20+...