Rosa By Starlight UK edition, artwork by Keith Robinson
Rosa By Starlight US edition, artwork by Matt Rockefeller
Rosa By Starlight is my new book for 2024, published in August by Macmillan Children's Books (UK) and Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster (US).
It's a fantasy adventure concerning cats, orphans, and awful relations, set mostly in the magical city of Venice. I loved writing it so much that it almost wrote itself.
Both UK and US editions are illustrated throughout, by Keith Robinson here in the UK, and Matt Rockefeller in the US. I feel so lucky to have been able to work with them both.
Thank you, Evie, this is a wonderful beginning to a story.
Livia, a brilliantly ingenious way of escaping!
Sophia, clever you, and clever Marcus, and what a lovely birch tree.
Ava-Lillie, thank goodness you rescued Finn and Brownie!
Mayokun, I had to include this because it made me laugh!
And Mayokun again! I was so surprised and pleased when Marcus's brother arrived.
Ellie, this is so true, and so beautifully written.
Matthew, this is perfect, a campfire and supper and the ponies all safe.
Euan, thank you for this lively, lovely, happy description.
April 2022
More Information About Individual Books
A number of schools and individual people have been searching for more information about particular books.
If you look on the More Information Page and the choose a book and then click on the drop down menu for that book, you will find lots of material, including photographs, work schemes, all sorts of things.
Please feel free to contact me. I will always try to help.
Zoom School Visits
I am offering Zoom School Mini Visits from October 2021. They will be approx. 40 min and consist of: Short talk about books and reading, Swallows' Flight or Skylarks' War Powerpoint, Q and A.
I can adapt to individual schools, to a certain extent. Hopefully you will be able to either send in student's questions in advance, or message them to me at the time, (or whatever other method you have found that works best for you).
Please contact me via this website to book/discuss/etc.
Looking forward to meeting new readers VERY MUCH!!!
Scotts Primary School, Hornchurch
I really enjoyed our zoom meeting to talk about Boudica and the Iceni. You are right, my Boudica book was much too short. Thanks so much to everyone who added last chapters. I am enclosing screen shots of some of your brilliant moments below:
