Drawing Competition Winners!
I’m very excited to announce the winners (a little belatedly) of our October Chesham Waterstones drawing competition! OVER 5s WINNER Manu won in the over-5s category for a rather fantastic picture, that takes it’s influence from the surreal school of art. And yes, you read that right. And he’s eight! What were you doing when […]
Join us on 20th October! Another book signing and competition
I’m so chuffed to be going back at Waterstones in Chesham for another brilliant book signing! If you’re around the area, why not bring the kids along to a farrrt-tastic ‘Space Bugs and Selfies!’ book reading on Saturday 20th October, at Chesham Waterstones, from 11-15:00? And of course, we’ll be holding the next fabulous drawing […]
Book Signing at Chesham Waterstones
What a fantastic day at Chesham Waterstones. I got there at 11 and stayed till 3pm. To be honest, with the World Cup still rolling on and the sun beating down I wasn’t sure we’d get many people showing up. How lovely to be so wrong! It was such a treat talking to so many […]
Only 1% of main characters in kid’s books aren’t white!
So, I think it was last week I read an article in the guardian about some research that showed only 1% of children’s books had a main character from an ethnic minority. I mean, that’s just shocking really isn’t it? If you consider how diverse the UK is as a country. When I wrote Space […]
Welcome to the Space Bugs and Selfies! website
I’ll be blogging about all sorts of interesting things related to the book and issues around it,a s well as other fab books I find, to help young people be who they are, no matter who that is!