Pirates Don’t Drive Diggers is the second children’s picture book written by Maverick author Alex English and illustrated by the fantastic Duncan Beedie. The story is about reluctant pirate apprentice Brad who is sent to work on The Salty Dog to learn all about being a pirate when all really wants is to drive a digger. After many disastrous attempts at pirating, Brad is giving one last chance – find the… Read More »Pirates dig up first great review!
Tracy Gunaratnam will be reading her wonderfully funny story Preposterous Rhinoceros at Waterstones in Croydon on Friday 29th May! Waterstones has put together this fantastic window display to advertise Tracy’s event and we think it looks rather smashing! Preposterous Rhinocoeros is an equally hilarious and touching tale of a silly rhinoceros who decides to learn to read with disastrous results. Eventually he gets the right idea and with a bit of… Read More »A preposterously good event!
Maverick had some very exciting news a couple of weeks ago… Hedgehugs had been shortlisted for the Evening Standard’s OScar’s First Book Prize! Last Thursday the Hedgehugs team attended the Oscar’s First Book Prize party at swanky Soho House in London! We all got dressed up and we were full of nerves and excitement as we mingled with the other nominated authors and their publishing team as well as other esteemed… Read More »Hedgehugs honoured to be shortlisted for Oscar’s First Book Prize
Reception classes at Blenheim Primary School learned about some creative sheep when author Amanda Brandon took along her picture book ‘A Scarf and a Half’ featuring knitting loving Granny Mutton and her grandson Little Lionel. Amanda said, “We talked about the story, where wool comes from and what we could use it for. I also had a peek at the school’s fabulous new library which fundraisers had worked hard to pack with great books. It looked well… Read More »Granny Mutton visits Blenheim Primary School!
Amanda Brandon will be at Felixstowe Book festival this June to share her first book A Scarf and a Half and her second book A Box of Socks as part of two very knitty, very crafty reading sessions! Amanda will be at Felixstowe Library in the children’s section running two different events on Saturday 27th June. The first session will… Read More »Socks, Scarves and Sheep at Felixstowe Book Fest!
Phil Allcock, author of funny book Cantankerous King Colin, visited Tilly’s Coffee Shop last week. Phil read his story Cantankerous King Colin to the children and parents who attended and looks forward to doing more events in the future. Cantankerous King Colin was featured on Cbeebies Bedtime Stories read by Tom Hollander. Cantankerous King Colin is available here.
Next Tuesday evening before little ones across the UK go to bed, they will be treated to the wonderful story of The Black and White Club by the one and only Sir Derek Jacobi. On Tuesday 24th March, the celebrated actor Sir Derek Jacobi – Â who stars in Cinderella, Last Tango in Halifax and I, Claudius – will read The Black and White Club on Cbeebies Bedtime Stories. The Black… Read More »Derek Jacobi reads The Black and White Club for Cbeebies Bedtime stories!
Last week Mucky stopped by Wodonga Library in Australia for story time! Mrs Mac, and her lovable puppet assistant Bluey, read I Wish I’d Been Born a Unicorn by Rachel Lyon to the young and eager story lovers! The library has also begun to share Mrs Mac’s story time choices on Youtube so that everyone, everywhere can enjoy these wonderful stories. Watch the video below of her and Bluey reading… Read More »Mucky pays a visit to Australia!
We have decided to close our submissions for a short while in order to catch up with the stories we have received. We are hoping that by the time we reopen we will be able to cut down the response time to a short 3 months! Last week we announced that the submissions will be closing and implored all children’s writers out there to get their acts together and submit… Read More »Our Submissions are now closed!
Three of Maverick’s picture books have been selected to be a part of the Summer Reading Challenge 2015 Record Breakers collection! The three books are: A Scarf and a Half by Amanda Brandon The Black and White Club by Alice Hemming I Wish I’d Been Born a Unicorn by Rachel Lyon Maverick are thrilled to have three books selected for the programme and the authors and illustrators involved are over the… Read More »It’s going to be a Maverick Summer!
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