Tracy Beaker is by far the most popular of all the characters I've ever invented. How she would love to know that! She would just glory in the fact that there are now three books about her, a very popular long-running television series, a magazine, a musical, and all sorts of merchandising, from pyjamas to pencil cases! Tracy's always been a very special character to me too, because The Stor…
People often ask me if there are any subjects I feel I can't tackle in a children's book. Death doesn't often get written into modern books for young people – though curiously it was a staple of nineteenth century children's literature. I remember sniffling over the death of Beth in the Little Women books! But you don't get many sad and sentimental deathbed scenes nowadays, especially not the…
Marty and her big sister Melissa couldn't be more different - and they just don't get along. Marty is a messy tomboy and loves animals, snuggling up in her cosy, comfy den and drawing her comics especially her favourite character, the brilliant Mighty Mart. So living with pink, girlie, superannoying Melissa has never been easy. But things are about to get much worse. When Mum's new dress-mak…
My name is April. April Showers - that's my nickname at school now. . At least it's better than April Fool. And it's much, much better than Dustbin Baby... I don't know where I came from, 1 or who I really am. All I know is that I was abandoned as a tiny baby in a rubbish bin. I'm safe with my foster , mother now - but if only I could find - my real mother, somehow ...
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell's debut – and only – novel, , has maintained an extraordinary popularity since its first publication in 1936. To date, more than 30 million copies have been sold worldwide. This is an extraordinary achievement. Popular appeal very rarely lasts this long; to maintain a readership a novel must offer something more than an intriguing story; more than vivid…
After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land have beaten their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors. one another into an uneasy truce. Few legitimate claims to the Iron Throne still exist, and the war that has turned the world into little more than a wasteland has finally burned itself out. Or so it appears. For it's …