Elliot and Leslie discover the world’s strangest inventions were all created by a team of extremely unusual engineers at a top secret laboratory—right there in the middle of…
When the reigning King of Spud quits to become a hairdresser, the people choose the commoner named Puggly to replace him. Struggling with his new responsibilities, Puggly finds…
When your dad’s a big bad wolf, life is no fairy tale. Henry Whelp is the son of a notorious wolf serving a life sentence for the double…
The bizarre, internationally award-winning novel-in-verse that continues to astonish readers around the world… A brave young girl. An eccentric, underground creature. A secret map. A bizarre lottery. An…
Today is the 20th of February 2018, which means: Happy Book Birthday to Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms! This is my first picture book, with illustrations by the Japanese-American artist,…
Excellent news, everyone. There has been a new translation of Zorgamazoo. As you might imagine, finding someone—anyone—to translate this book is harder than finding pearls of wisdom in a…
Had I been born a few years earlier in the U.S. state of Virginia, my existence would have been a crime. Until the summer of 1967, sixteen America states had laws prohibiting…
One of my favourite quotes about Norfolk comes from Kazuo Ishiguro’s wonderful novel, Never Let Me Go, in which he dubbed the region, “the lost corner of England.”…
This week a strange, unexpected, and rather wonderful thing happened. I appeared on television. And I have Dr. Seuss to thank. It happened like this… In 2013, a nearly complete…