Shout Out Time…

“Here is your chance to celebrate some brilliant but overlooked books,” tweeted Andrew Rough a few days ago, and many thanks to the ever-supportive Ian Eagleton for choosing The Shop on Peculiar Hill and Stranger Days on Peculiar Hill amongst his responses. He also selected The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer (which is on my Kindle and will probably be even more exciting if I actually get round to reading it, which I am DEFINITELY GOING TO DO NEXT) and also a new book to me, The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles by Michelle Cuevas and Erin E Stead.

Ian himself has an exciting week coming up because his own book Nen and the Lonely Fisherman (with illustrations by James Mayhew) is released on June 1 and there’s also an Instagram reading of the book by none other than Stephen Fry on 29 May!

Reading Recommendations

Great to get another recommendation on Twitter for The Shop on Peculiar Hill from those nice people at The Reading Realm. Especially chuffed to be mentioned alongside Abi Elphinstone and Nadine Wild-Palmer, two exciting young writers. Their books featured here are Rumblestar and The Tunnels Below, both worth looking out.

The Reading Realm itself, of course, is a great resource full of games and quizzes to help young people fall in love with the art of reading. Available now for iPod from the App Store. An Android version is on its way. Rumblestar and The Shop on Peculiar Hill are both featured in the App. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Tunnels Below is in the next edition…