I’ve been a fan of Esther since her facebook page went up and if you haven’t met her I bet you’ll love her too. I first blogged about her on this site and GirlsHeartBooks way back in 2016 (Esther the Wonder Pig – Megan Rix / Ruth Symes) and have followed her ever since. Such a star. She’s been poorly in hospital since May but has now finally gone home: http://@estherthewonderpig
On the 10th of November 1619 Rene Descartes had the dream that inspired his famous quote: ‘I think therefore I am.’ To reach this conclusion he went into seclusion and removed all stimuli as a thought-experiment to work out what he knew for certain and what he decided was that he must exist because he… Continue Reading
First, CONGRATULATIONS to Evie, Anna and Hayley for winning copies of ‘Cornflake the Dragon’ written by my Ruth Symes self and Martha, Helen and Rhian for winning copies of ‘The Hero Pup’ written by the Megan Rix me. I’m so sorry I didn’t get to say congrats before (although the books should be with… Continue Reading
To be honest it was really very magical being an extra in the Goblet of Fire and lots of the other extras’ costumes were amazing. Friends got to dress up with wizard’s hats and coats, cute long elfin like lacy dresses, stripy this’s and spotty that’s. My costume wasn’t quite so cute…. Before we got… Continue Reading
On Tuesday I helped out (mainly did a lot of ooohing and aaahing) at an event called Piggies’ Day Out. It was organised by Project 229 and Booktastic and it was brilliant. There were piggy stories – The Three Little Pigs for under 7’s (the group that I was with) and Pig Sticks and Harold for over 7’s. Under… Continue Reading
I had the best time at Fun Kids radio even though I arrived so late I thought it might not happen Continue Reading
This year we are taking our dogs camping for the very first time. Not my idea – my mum and dad said they were going and so did one of my brothers and his partner and little girl and before I could stop him my husband said: ‘We’ll come too’ and my parents were lending… Continue Reading
Megan Rix is writing about amazing animals today on the Guardian website – click here to have a read: http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/jul/04/top-10-animal-war-heroes-first-world-war-megan-rix Continue Reading
I’ve been having a nail biting, train zooming, speed-writing, brain tingling time recently. Deadlines have loomed and been achieved – hurrah! Hay Festival talk went brilliantly – hurrah – (even though my dogs who’d been given special dispensation to come along too decided to lie in muddy puddles just before and had to be washed… Continue Reading
A brand new reading group for 8-12’s is launched today at Sutton library at 2.15pm today. Head along if you’re in the area and thumbs up to you all and hope you all have a great time 🙂 Good luck tweets to @suttonlibrary Continue Reading
Hello! Firstly, I am so sorry to everyone waiting for me to email them back – it’s gone absolutely crazy here and another deadline’s looming but I PROMISE I will get back to you very soon – hopefully this weekend and from then on I’m going to be replying like I used to do –… Continue Reading