Tagged ‘7-11’
How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good by Emma Barnes
Paperback (cover by Emma Chichester Clark)
ISBN:978-1905537-28-0
Price:£6.99
Publication date: August
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How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good, tells the delightful and very funny story of Martha Bones.
Ever since she bit Santa when she was six months old, it’s been downhill all the way for Martha. She is horrible to her baby brother, Boris, elder sister, Sally, and her parents are in despair.
Far away from earth, Martha’s behaviour comes to the attention of the Interstellar Agency, whose aim
is to make bad children good. Fred, an Interstellar agent with a poor track record is sent to Earth as
Martha’s guardian agent. His mission…to make Martha good, but Martha has other ideas…
Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher by Emma Barnes
“A refreshing variation on the witches and wizards that now crowd children’s fiction”: The Sunday Times
Paperback (new edition with cover by Emma Chichester Clark)
ISBN: 978-1905537-30-3
Price: £6.99
Publication: August
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Imagine if your mother was a witch!
‘Jessica thought for the thousandth time it was a terrible nuisance having a witch for a mother.
Other people’s mothers had sensible hobbies. They did not go around pretending they could charm warts, or offer potions for ingrowing toe-nails.
Nor did they dress up in long black capes and practice incantations in the back garden!’
Jessica thinks she has the most embarrassing mother in the universe. At least she has always been able to keep her mother’s peculiar hobby a secret, but all that changes when Mrs. Haggerthwaite announces that she’s turning professional.
Jessica is determined to be a famous scientist one day and having a witch for a relative will do her no good at all. She becomes a “Witch Dispatcher” determined to thwart her mother’s plans…
Emma Barnes
Award-winning author, Emma Barnes, grew up in Edinburgh.
Her books have been translated into several languages, and broadcast on BBC Radio.She regularly visits schools, libraries and festivals, sharing her passion for books and reading.
Books by Emma Barnes:
How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good: (August 2011)
Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher:(New edition: August 2011)
Keith Charters
Keith Charters is the author of the enormously popular ‘Lee’ books, and is a frequently requested presenter, usually visiting over 150 schools throughout the UK and Ireland every year. One memorable event saw 1,500 schoolchildren attend a launch over two days.
His first novel, Lee and the Consul Mutants reached Number One in The Herald Children’s Bestsellers.
Keith Charters lives in Glasgow with his family.
Books by Keith Charters:
Lee and the Consul Mutants
Lee Goes for Gold
Lee’s Holiday Showdown
Lee on the Dark Side of the Moon
Cathy MacPhail
Cathy MacPhail is the award-winning author of more than twenty novels including Roxy’s Baby, Fighting Back and Run, Zan, Run.
The first in the Granny Nothing series was reissued by Strident due to popular demand from teachers, librarians and schoolchildren.
Strident was delighted to receive the following review from a reader: “I am a seven year old girl. I think this book is very good and disgusting. It made me laugh a lot.”
Cathy MacPhail has vast experience of presenting at festivals and schools. She lives in Greenock.
Books by Cathy MacPhail:Granny Nothing
The King Of The Copper Mountains by Paul Biegel
